_debug_memmove -- Copy Bytes

Format

#include <string.h>
void *_debug_memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count,
                    const char *filename, size_t line);

Language Level: Extension
_debug_memmove is the debug version of memmove. Like memmove, it copies count bytes of src to dest, and allows for copying between objects that may overlap.

_debug_memmove validates the heap after copying the bytes to the target location, and performs this check only when the target is within a heap. _debug_memmove makes an implicit call to _heap_check. If _debug_memmove detects a corrupted heap when it makes a call to _heap_check, _debug_memmove will report the file name file and line number line in a message.

Note: _debug_memmove checks only the current default heap. Therefore, this debug support will not check all heaps within applications that have multiple user heaps.

To use _debug_memmove, you must compile with the debug memory (/Tm) compiler option. This option maps all memcpy calls to _debug_memmove. You do not have to change your source code, in order for _debug_memmove to verify the heap.

Note: The /Tm option maps all calls to other string functions and all calls to memory management functions (including a heap-specific version), to their debug counterparts. To prevent a call from being mapped, parenthesize the function name.

Return Value
_debug_memmove returns a pointer to dest.

Example
This example is similar to the memmove example, except that it contains a programming error. The count specified on memmove is 15 instead of 5, and the memmove operation copies bytes past the end of the allocated object.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define  SIZE          21
int main(void)
{
   char *target, *p, *source;
   target = (char*)malloc(SIZE);
   strcpy(target, "a shiny white sphere");
   p = target+8;                    /* p points at the starting character
                                       of the word we want to replace   */
   source = target+2;               /* start of "shiny" */
   printf("Before memmove, target is \"%s\"\n", target);
   memmove(p, source, 15);
   printf("After memmove, target becomes \"%s\"\n", target);
   return 0;
   /****************************************************************************
      The output should be similar to:
      Before memmove, target is "a shiny white sphere"
      End of allocated object 0x00073c80 was overwritten at 0x00073c95.
      The first eight bytes of the memory block (in hex) are: 61207368696E7920.
      This memory block was (re)allocated at line number 11 in memmove.c.
      Heap state was valid at line 12 of memmove.c.
      Memory error detected at line 18 of memcpy.c.
   ****************************************************************************/
}


Managing Memory with Multiple Heaps


_debug_memcpy -- Copy Bytes
_debug_memset -- Set Bytes to Value
_heap_check -- Validate Default Memory Heap
memmove -- Copy Bytes
<string.h>
/Tm compiler option