Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:55:51 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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	Radical NetSurfer on Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:37:41 -0400)
Subject:	Re: memset behavior
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> There's no such thing as a    memcat()  routine...
> why?  How can binary data (data containing 0x00) be
> CONCATED to accurately and properly return the
> size (pointer growth) of a buffer?

There is no memcat because there's no way to tell where the end of the
binary data is by inspecting the binary data itself.  You have to keep
track of the length separately.  Since you thus already have the
length, you can just use memcpy (like "memcpy(buf+length, tmp, foo);
length += foo;")

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