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<p>
        This prevents buffer overflow, regardless of the buffer sizes used in the
        copy operation.
      </p>
<p>
        Note that <a class="link" href="buffer_copy.html" title="buffer_copy"><code class="computeroutput">buffer_copy</code></a>
        is implemented in terms of <code class="computeroutput">memcpy</code>, and consequently it cannot
        be used to copy between overlapping memory regions.
      </p>
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