Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: bcopy
Message-ID: <712@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 20:11:48 GMT
References: <669@auspex.UUCP> <47800018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >It seems to me the idea is that memcpy should be the most efficient
 >possible way to copy SMALL things - maybe even things like structs
 >containing four bytes, in which case a 32 bit integer move instruction
 >could be generated (if the alignemnt was right).

The C compilers I know of generate inline code, not calls to "memcpy" or
any other subroutine, for structure assignments; they may even generate
such a move instruction if appropriate.