[prem_may10]

hi
1. what is the difference between strcpy and memcpy
2. what is memory leak?
3. what is the difference between general operating system and real time operating system.


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yasodhar premchand

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1. what is the difference between strcpy and memcpy

strcpy

strcpy allows null-terminated memory blocks to be copied to different locations. Since, in C, strings are not first-class datatypes, and are implemented as blocks of ASCII bytes in memory, strcpy will effectively copy strings given two pointers to blocks of allocated memory.

memcpy

memcpy() works on arbitrary data of a given fixed length

use memcpy() when you want to copy an exact amount of data (possibly containing embedded null chars) from one location to another, and strcpy() when you want to copy a variable-length null-terminated C string from one location to another...

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2. what is memory leak?

Memory leaks are often thought of as failures to release unused memory by a computer program. Strictly speaking, it is just unneccesary memory consumption. As an example Making malloc calls without the corresponding calls to free.

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3. what is the difference between general operating system and real time operating system.

OS which performs the task in the real time environment. As an example say you need to embedded applications (programmable thermostats, household appliance controllers, mobile telephones), which cannot take more than a specified time to complete an operation but your normal OS can.

[prem_may10]

hi
still i am not getting the diffrence between strcpy and memcpy. can u explain with examples.


Thanks
yasodhar premchand

[shabbir]

strcpy is used for copying strings (terminated by a null '\0') but memcpy can be used to copy some data of finite length to the desired memory location.

memcpy(bufDest,bufSrc,100); // Will copy 100 bytes whatever be the content be

strcpy(bufDest,bufSrc); // Will copy all the bytes till it finds the first null terminating character

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[QUOTE=prem_may10][COLOR=Blue][B]hi
1. what is the difference between strcpy and memcpy

strcpy is a function to copy a charactor array in given memory into another location and leaving the original string in its adress whilst memcopy copies copies all the contents of a given memory