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Added comments before recently added/assigned slots in the type object, so the backward compatibility issues will be easier to understand. I only added comments indicating additions and assignments back to Python 2.0.
author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:32:33 +0000
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/* A perhaps slow but I hope correct implementation of memmove */

extern char *memcpy(char *, char *, int);

char *
memmove(char *dst, char *src, int n)
{
	char *realdst = dst;
	if (n <= 0)
		return dst;
	if (src >= dst+n || dst >= src+n)
		return memcpy(dst, src, n);
	if (src > dst) {
		while (--n >= 0)
			*dst++ = *src++;
	}
	else if (src < dst) {
		src += n;
		dst += n;
		while (--n >= 0)
			*--dst = *--src;
	}
	return realdst;
}