At 12:11 PM 4/24/98 +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
>Hi Chris.
>
> > As to why the above is faster in userland, that seems really odd. I
> > would assume the libc string copy to be something like:
>
> > char *strcpy(char *a,char*b)
> > {
> > char c = b;
> > while(*a++ = *b++);
> > return c;
> > }
>
>That would return the wrong value, but replace the "char c=b" with
>"char c=a" and you have the standard implementation.
Almost correct. Make it "char *c=a", and you have the std imp.
Danny
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