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From: robert@sri-spam.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: String Handling -- Incompetence of run-time libraries
Message-ID: <9999@sri-spam.istc.sri.com>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 19:07:32 EST
Article-I.D.: sri-spam.9999
Posted: Wed Apr  1 19:07:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 08:33:38 EST
References: <15292@amdcad.UUCP> <978@ames.UUCP> <15694@sun.uucp> <9996@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> <6071@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: robert@sri-spam.UUCP (Robert Allen)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park
Lines: 23
Keywords: instruction set architectures, strcpy

In article <6071@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <9996@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> robert@sri-spam.istc.sri.com
>(Robert Allen) writes:
>>To further speed this up you could write it as:
>>	strcpy2(ss1,ss2)
>>	register char *ss1, *ss2;
>>	{
>>	    while (*s1++ = *s2++)
>>	    ;
>>	}
>>thus eliminating two assignments and two local variables.
>
>Now these people all seem to be talking about Vaxen; I feel I must
>point out the various errors here.  It is clear that neither the
>original someone nor Robert Allen actually compiled these to
>assembly.  (Use `cc -O -S' to do this.)
>

	yes, I confess. I didn't compile the version I typed into
	the message, although I did confirm that it worked by coding
	and running an example with the *correct* variable names.
	Woe is me.  Also, I appear to have been wrong about saving
	the two assignment statments also.