view Python/memmove.c @ 27867:e6cf9557de42 2.2

Backport 2.217 and 2.218: Provide access to the import lock, fixing SF bug #580952. This is mostly from SF patch #683257, but I had to change unlock_import() to return an error value to avoid fatal error.
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
date Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:06:02 +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;
}