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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Explanation, please!
Summary: none
Message-ID: <1031@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 88 21:02:32 GMT
References: <653@paris.ICS.UCI.EDU> <2877@ttrdc.UUCP> <1002@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <1002@cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (that's me) wrote:
> Sometimes the standard subroutines are implemented horribly.  I was
> horrified when I saw that the machine dependent version of memcpy
> on the AT&T 3Bs is nothing but a byte by byte transfer written in
> assembly language. ...

Oops.  I should have said this was on an early version (~1984) of
a 3B5.  New 3Bs don't have this deficiency.

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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM