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The standard says that a call to `memcpy` must pass a valid source and
destination pointer even if the size is 0, so we must avoid calling
`memcpy` when our source pointer is NULL. If we don't, an optimizing
compiler can decide that the pointer must be non-NULL based on the
presence of UB, and optimize out checks for null pointers.
Specifically, note that the standard says:
Where an argument declared as size_t n specifies the length of the
array for a function, n can have the value zero on a call to that
function. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in the description of
a particular function in this subclause, pointer arguments on such
a call shall still have valid values, as described in 7.1.4.
And section 7.1.4 says:
If an argument to a function has an invalid value (such as a value
outside the domain of the function, or a pointer outside the address
space of the program, or a null pointer, or a pointer to
non-modifiable storage when the corresponding parameter is not
const-qualified) or a type (after default argument promotion) not
expected by a function with a variable number of arguments, the
behavior is undefined.
The specification for `memcpy` doesn't state that it's allowed to be
called with null pointers, and Linux's `/usr/include/string.h` declares
`memcpy` as `__nonnull ((1, 2))`.
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