Explanation, please!
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.ARPA
Thu Sep 1 11:34:20 AEST 1988
In article <2945 at wright.mips.COM> earl at mips.COM (Earl Killian) writes:
>According to the author, that code was used for copying to a 16-bit IO
>device. It would have be illegal to use memcpy or bcopy because they
>would make word references to the device.
Wrong reason. memcpy() etc. don't have the right behavior for stashing
a sequence of values into the same destination location.
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