reverse engineers: never reverse a function called memcpy. it's never worth it. it's more complicated than you think and it does exactly what you think

people trying to make obfuscated code: name a function memcpy and make it do something unexpected as a side-effect. no one will ever notice

(also I hate you)

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@foone Memory map the same page multiple times such that memove will sometimes behave a bit like like memset, and use the argument order to either zero your objects or copy them.

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