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- From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: scrcpy implementation question
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.193936.4411@ima.isc.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 19:39:36 GMT
- References: <PINKAS.92Aug21114508@caraway.intel.com>
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- In article <PINKAS.92Aug21114508@caraway.intel.com>, pinkas@caraway.intel.com (Israel Pinkas) writes:
- > A compiler group working for us has told us that they plan to make the
- > following optimization for the strcpy library function:
- > [Unrolled loop of word moves, copying past the terminator, up to the smaller
- > of compile-time dst_size and src_size]
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- Presumably it is important to get the wrong answer as fast as possible.
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- Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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