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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan or side effect
Date: Wed,  6 Mar 2002 09:51:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87it8a208a.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020305095507.EEF2519AAA@mail.cse.psu.edu>

nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es (Fco.J.Ballesteros) writes:

> 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).

Um, the implementation is correct.  I'm not sure why a "preprocessor
mess" is such a mess.  The beginning comment was somebody who thought
that the compiler was doing the magic; that shows that the
"preprocessor mess" is sufficiently well done that nobody ever notices
it unless they go looking for it.  (As, indeed, I did.)


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-06  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-05  9:54 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-03-06  9:51 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
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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