memcpy verses memmove

[rinku24]

What is the difference between memcpy and memmove? Which is more
expensive?

 

[Ruslan Abdikeev]

What is the difference between memcpy and memmove? Which is more
expensive?

memcpy expects that source and destination areas do not overlap.
It is undefined behaviour to give memcpy overlapping areas (and in C99,
memcpy has "restrict" qualifiers on both sides).
memmove behaves correctly in case of overlapping areas, but it is
potentially more expensive.

Hope it helps,
Ruslan Abdikeev.

 

[Gianni Mariani]

What is the difference between memcpy and memmove? Which is more
expensive?

memmove is ever so slightly more expensive because it does a check of
wether it needs to do a copy forward or copy backward.

On some systems, memcpy is the same routine as memmove.