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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan or side effect
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Date: Fri,  1 Mar 2002 13:07:45 +0100
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"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> If you look at <bits/string2.h> you can see the glibc magic for
> strcpy.  It boils down to the following:
> 
>   define strcpy(dest, src) \
>   (__extension__ (__builtin_constant_p (src)                                  \
>                   ? (__string2_1bptr_p (src) && strlen (src) + 1 <= 8         \
>                      ? __strcpy_small (dest, __strcpy_args (src),             \
>                                        strlen (src) + 1)                      \
>                      : (char *) memcpy (dest, src, strlen (src) + 1))         \
>                   : strcpy (dest, src)))
> 

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