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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ASM code & Random
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:21:11 -0800
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> That would be a nice optimisation. Is the memcpy() an inline function in
> one of the headers? If so, which one? I can't find it anywhere...

The mem... functions are ANSI C.  The exact formulation is, of course,
implementation dependent; they generally compile to the biggest-bit-size moves
available (32-bit, for example), with intelligence to make sure that you don't
copy too much at the boundaries.

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