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koolbatoday at 12:56 AM0 repliesview on HN

> The second one is absolutely trivial if you've ever read K&R (even if you're not allowed to just call strcpy())

The naive approach’s assumes you can iterate over the first string until it terminates.

It’s a bit trickier if you do not assume the memory regions cannot overlap.

See memcpy vs memmove: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/memmove.3.html