std::ptr::copy - Rust
Description: API documentation for the Rust `copy` fn in crate `std`.
Keywords: rust, rustlang, rust-lang, copy

# Function std::ptr::copy 1.0.0[−][src]

    pub unsafe extern "rust-intrinsic" fn copy<T>(
        src: *const T,
        dst: *mut T,
        count: usize
    )

Copies `count * size_of<T>` bytes from `src` to `dst`. The source and destination may overlap.

`copy` is semantically equivalent to C's `memmove`.

# Safety

Care must be taken with the ownership of `src` and `dst`. This method semantically moves the values of `src` into `dst`. However it does not drop the contents of `dst`, or prevent the contents of `src` from being dropped or used.

# Examples

Efficiently create a Rust vector from an unsafe buffer:

    use std::ptr;

    unsafe fn from_buf_raw<T>(ptr: *const T, elts: usize) -> Vec<T> {
        let mut dst = Vec::with_capacity(elts);
        dst.set_len(elts);
        ptr::copy(ptr, dst.as_mut_ptr(), elts);
        dst
    }Run

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