Tricky way to unroll string copy loops

[Gary M. Samuelson]

I would like to suggest one aesthetic improvement to
Duff's Device.  It would look slightly less revolting
(in my opinion) if all of the case labels were at the
same block level:

Original:
> 			case 0: do {	*to++ = *from++;
> 			case 7:		*to++ = *from++;
>			...
> 			case 1:		*to++ = *from++;
> 				} while (--n > 0);

With my proposed change:
> 				do {
> 			case 0: 	*to++ = *from++;
> 			case 7:		*to++ = *from++;
>			...
> 			case 1:		*to++ = *from++;
> 				} while (--n > 0);

As I said, it's an aesthetic change, but then again, there
might be a case where some compiler does something with
either the 'do' or the brace which makes a difference.

I'm not sure I would use it either way.

Gary Samuelson
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