Re: faster strcpy()

Regis Duchesne (hpreg@celine.via.ecp.fr)
24 Apr 1998 21:11:19 +0200

> I changed the definition of strcpy in /usr/include/string.h to
> #define strcpy(a,b) (char *)memcpy(a,b,strlen(b))
I don't like it, due to the side-effect : b is evaluated twice
Imagine if somebody uses the macro like this :

strcpy(foo, ++bar); /* I'm dead */

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