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<html> <head> <title>bstring</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="bstring"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1><b>bstring</b></h1></center> <PRE> <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/BSTRING">BSTRING(3)</A></STRONG> Linux Programmer's Manual <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/BSTRING">BSTRING(3)</A></STRONG> NAME bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memfrob, memmem, memmove, memset - byte string operations SYNOPSIS #include <string.h> int bcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n); void bcopy(const void *src, void *dest, size_t n); void bzero(void *s, size_t n); void *memccpy(void *dest, const void *src, int c, size_t n); void *memchr(const void *s, int c, size_t n); int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n); void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n); void *memfrob(void *s, size_t n); void *memmem(const void *haystack, size_t haystacklen, const void *needle, size_t needlelen); void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n); void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n); DESCRIPTION The byte string functions perform operations on strings (byte arrays) that are not necessarily null-terminated. See the individual man pages for descriptions of each function. NOTES The functions bcmp(), bcopy() and bzero() are obsolete. Use memcmp(), memcpy() and memset() instead. SEE ALSO <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/bcmp">bcmp(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/bcopy">bcopy(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/bzero">bzero(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/memccpy">memccpy(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/memchr">memchr(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/memcmp">memcmp(3)</A></STRONG>, mem- <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/cpy">cpy(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/memfrob">memfrob(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/memmem">memmem(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/memmove">memmove(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/memset">memset(3)</A></STRONG> COLOPHON This page is part of release 5.05 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2019-03-06 <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/BSTRING">BSTRING(3)</A></STRONG></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>