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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/memcpy.39
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3
index bc7d786..c970d7c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3
@@ -82,5 +82,10 @@ is implemented using
.Xr bcopy 3 ,
and therefore the strings may overlap.
On other systems, copying overlapping strings may produce surprises.
-A simpler solution is to not use
-.Fn memcpy .
+Programs intended to be portable should use
+.Xr memmove 3
+when
+.Fa src
+and
+.Fa dst
+may overlap.
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