overlapping objects

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From: Andrew Walduck
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 11:22

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What exactly is an overlapping object in ANSI??

For example:

char buffer[5];
memcpy(buffer, buffer, 5);

Is this a call to memcpy with overlapping objects?? 
And so...its perfectly alright for memcpy to dump core?? 

Thanx
Andrew Walduck

Andrew Walduck -- OMRON Japan -- andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp 
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Subject: overlapping objects
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