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From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan or side effect
Date: Tue,  5 Mar 2002 10:54:51 +0100	[thread overview]
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If there are more efficient (but still correct) ways, just
replace the implementation of strcpy. And let the programs using
strcpy call strcpy without a preprocessor mess. cf. The Practice
of Programming (A "must" read).

hth


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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:41:37 GMT

ozan s yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca> writes:

> so far as we can tell, the only thing you wish we would learn has to do
> with license paperwork. i've been using it since b2 release in 87, so
> i'm curious what else you have in mind.

The referenced thread was about more efficient ways of implementing
strcpy than the trivial one.  I'm sure there are more than that one.

Thomas

             reply	other threads:[~2002-03-05  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-05  9:54 Fco.J.Ballesteros [this message]
2002-03-06  9:51 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-06  9:52 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-03-08  9:59   ` ozan s. yigit
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-08 19:22 forsyth
2002-03-07 13:45 rob pike
2002-03-07 15:47 ` AMSRL-CI-C
2002-03-06 10:24 geoff
2002-03-07  9:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-03-01 11:35 forsyth
2002-02-28 17:41 David Gordon Hogan
2002-03-01 10:02 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-01 12:07   ` Boyd Roberts
2002-03-04 10:04     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-04 17:11       ` Sean Quinlan
2002-03-04 18:23       ` ozan s yigit
2002-03-05  9:41         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-05  9:56           ` Boyd Roberts
2002-03-05  9:43       ` Boyd Roberts
2002-03-08 17:30         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-08 18:00           ` Dan Cross
2002-03-11 10:04             ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-03-11 10:04             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-01 11:57 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-27 15:08 presotto
2002-02-27 15:27 ` Sean Quinlan
2002-02-28  9:58   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-28 12:51     ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-02-28 16:57       ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-28 16:01     ` AMSRL-CI-CN
2002-02-28 16:52       ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG

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