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Re: Expr: Improvement of substr


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: Expr: Improvement of substr
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:17:57 -0600
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> Sebastian Kreft writes:
> > And finally, why do you use mempcpy instead of strncpy?
> 
> A minor speed increase.  mempcpy need not check for '\0'.

In general I am always happy to see strncpy() removed from code.  It
is a terrible library routine, named inconsistently with other strn*()
routines, and just generally misunderstood.

Bob




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