refactor: make memmove vs memcpy behavior clearer #4447
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Description of changes:
6648c66 switched us from using memcpy to memmove, but didn't remove the "restrict" keywords on the arguments. This can cause analysis tools like asan and valgrind to flag arguments with overlapping memory.
This PR removes the keywords, and also switches the definition of the safety macros to specify "memmove" instead of "memcpy" to reduce confusion.
However, I do NOT change the actual names of the safety macros, so most of our code will still use RESULT_CHECKED_MEMCPY or POSIX_CHECKED_MEMCPY. But now the fact that those macros use memmove instead is clear from their definitions, rather than requiring digging through several more layers. We can always change the safety macro names in a later PR, but I'm not sure it's necessary.
Testing:
There should be no behavior change, and existing tests pass.
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