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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: String Handling -- Incompetence of run-time libraries
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 22:11:48 EST
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Keywords: instruction set architectures, strcpy
Xref: utgpu comp.arch:778 comp.lang.c:1470
Summary: what about return value?!?

In the discussion about strcpy, nobody has noticed that strcpy is SUPPOSED
TO RETURN THE FIRST POINTER PASSED TO IT.  This is one reason why the library
version is "slower" than 

	void strcpy(s1,s2) register char *s1,*s2; { while (*s1++ = *s2++); }


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