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Document number: N3751

Date: 2013-09-03

Object Lifetime, Low-level Programming, and memcpy

by Gabriel Dos Reis

Excerpt:

This document proposes to recognize a category of uses of memcpy -- currently left undefined -- as another form of object construction, thereby putting a class of existing practice in low-level system programming on firmer ground.