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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: Copy strings with "strcpy", not an idiom
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 10:50:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 10:50:30 1985
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> if you choose the wrong code sequence, or you forget to declare
> your variables "register", or you move it from a VAX to a PDP-11
> and there aren't enough register variables so they become "auto"
> (substitute your favorite machines for "VAX" and "PDP-11"), or....
> --  John Bruner

I agree that the built-in procedures should be used for portability,
no matter what the language.  But if we substitute my favourite
machines, we won't run out of registers!
-- 

   Norman Diamond

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