Re: String Handling -- Incompetence of run-time libraries

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From: levy
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1987 03:11

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In the discussion about strcpy, nobody has noticed that strcpy is SUPPOSED
TO RETURN THE FIRST POINTER PASSED TO IT.  This is one reason why the library
version is "slower" than 

	void strcpy(s1,s2) register char *s1,*s2; { while (*s1++ = *s2++); }


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Subject: Re: String Handling -- Incompetence of run-time libraries
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 22:11:48 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  4 22:11:48 1987
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Keywords: instruction set architectures, strcpy
Summary: what about return value?!?

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