memcpy(3) is not guaranteed to do overlaps, contrary to this historical

manpage "BUGS" section.  Nuke the entire section.
Addresses PR lib/13370.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)memcpy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $NetBSD: memcpy.3,v 1.6 2001/03/22 07:37:04 kleink Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: memcpy.3,v 1.7 2001/07/06 15:11:18 tv Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 4, 1993
.Dt MEMCPY 3
@ -75,12 +75,3 @@ The
function
conforms to
.St -isoC99 .
.Sh BUGS
In this implementation
.Fn memcpy
is implemented using
.Xr bcopy 3 ,
and therefore the strings may overlap.
On other systems, copying overlapping strings may produce surprises.
A simpler solution is to not use
.Fn memcpy .