memrchr(3)

memrchr3

Memory rear-search character

Usage

#define _GNU_SOURCE  // See feature_test_macros(7)
#include <string.h>  // see memory.h(3head)

void *memrchr(size_t n; const void s[n], int c, size_t n);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

memrchr() is like memchr(3), except that it searches backward from the end of the n bytes pointed to by s instead of forward from the beginning.

Return value

See memchr(3).

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
memrchr()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13
  12. Arch

Standards

GNU.

History

glibc 2.2.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.