bcopy

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Dec 16 06:52:27 AEST 1988


In article <712 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>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.

Actually, as part of a bug fix in Gould's UTX-32 C compiler made here,
it called on bcopy() to copy large structures.  Guess what happened in
our System V environment..  Right, no bcopy().



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