Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 15:11:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strcpy, strcat: not the same look & feel. Message-ID: <199605282211.PAA11890@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605282108.XAA00428@eac.iafrica.com> from "Robert Nordier" at May 28, 96 11:08:25 pm
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> Any guesses what extra code the statement > > i++ N > > would generate, if not a JMP? I would think it could do an extra compare at the top if it reordered. Of course, if it reordered, it wouldn't be doing extra stuff at all, because the logic should be invertable by a peephole optimizer, if you assume your compiler is any good at all. The GCC numbers Bruce posted were, to say the least, a bit scary. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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