Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Fri Sep 5 06:00:35 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m85D0ZmK004613 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:00:35 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m85CwoTc027876 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:58:50 -0700 Message-Id: <200809051258.m85CwoTc027876@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: CS-551 warmup-1 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:58:50 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > Does memcpy always work? I mean it does not have any return value, and the > man pages do not specify anything on this too. The man pages say that it returns the first argument to it. So, I guess it "always works", except when you write into bad memory and get a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu