bcopy
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.UUCP
Thu Dec 15 06:11:48 AEST 1988
>It seems to me the idea is that memcpy should be the most efficient
>possible way to copy SMALL things - maybe even things like structs
>containing four bytes, in which case a 32 bit integer move instruction
>could be generated (if the alignemnt was right).
The C compilers I know of generate inline code, not calls to "memcpy" or
any other subroutine, for structure assignments; they may even generate
such a move instruction if appropriate.
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