From:	Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Q: argument order in memory copy routine
Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:06:12 +0200
Organization:	University of Ghent, Belgium
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Hi

I've a hypothetical question:
Suppose there was a couple of far memory copy functions to be added to
the library functions, in what order should I put the parameters?

There is
	memcpy (dst, src, len)
	memmove (dst, src, len)
And there is
	movedata (src_sel, src_ofs, dst_sel, dst_ofs, len)
And there is
	dosmemput (src_buf, len, ofs)
and
	dosmemget (ofs, len, dst_buf)

It seems it's impossible to be consistent with those. But following the
oldest one and the most standard one, i.e. memcpy seems the best. Any
other opinions?

? farmemget (void *buf, src_sel, src_ofs, len)
? farmemput (src_sel, src_ofs, void *buf, len)

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