Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: using standard interfaces (was: Re: Explanation, please!)
Message-ID: <1988Sep17.210816.8609@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <485.231DAAC3@stjhmc.fidonet.org> <725@proxftl.UUCP> <7076@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 88 21:08:16 GMT

In article <7076@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>	I doubt that memcpy even existed then; and it is *not* standard
>	now.  Perhaps it will be several years after the ANSI standard is
>	adopted, but not till then.
>
>The reason we keep pointing out the existence of standard
>functions to those who would rather (or have to) roll their own
>is to encourage people to start using the standard interface...

Note also that there is a public-domain version of memcpy in the strings
library I wrote (which went out in comp.sources.unix quite some time ago,
and is available from their archives).  It's not fast, but it works.
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