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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: bcopy
Message-ID: <9193@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Dec 88 20:52:27 GMT
References: <669@auspex.UUCP> <47800018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <712@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <712@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>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.

Actually, as part of a bug fix in Gould's UTX-32 C compiler made here,
it called on bcopy() to copy large structures.  Guess what happened in
our System V environment..  Right, no bcopy().