From:	Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Inline asm
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:47:54 -0300
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Donald McComb wrote:

> Ahhh... But I thought memcopy copied the memory in byte sized chunks,
> rather than longs, and thus wouldn't be quite as fast as it could be.  I
> hope you're right... that solution is far more appealling than inline
> asm :)

    No, memcpy (no 'o') copy's 4-byte chunks (but also works with blocks not
divisible by 4).  There is a function memmove that copies 1 byte at a time
in case the regions overlap, but it is (essentially) 4 times slower.

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