30 Oct
2018
30 Oct
'18
7:56 p.m.
I'd imagine you'd use it like so (in more modern C):
void *memcpy(void *src, void *dst, size_t len)
{
char *rv = dst;
top:
while (len--) *dst++ =*src; /* not always a trivial body */
return(rv);
entry bcopy:
rv = dst; /* Swap args and jump to memcpy */
dst = src;
src = rv;
goto top:
}
Variations on this theme are often done in assembler for these routines,
though the example is an attempt to cope with the diversity of interfaces
that grew up after v6 unix was released in the world, so it's not likely
this particular example inspired it...
Warner
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 4:00 AM Angelo Papenhoff <aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
On 30/10/18, Steve Simon wrote:
“entry” was a reserved word in K&R Ed.1,
my personal favourite C trivia. I have never seen it used outside
fortran on
mainframes though.
I think PL/1 on Multics uses it, which is probably how it "got into" C.
aap