On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:04:18 +0000, Schmitt, Michael wrote:

>Correction: as we can see from the example I posted, when generating a MVC 
>loop, it ALWAYS generates one more MVC at the end, even if the size of the 
>field is evenly divisible by 256.
>
>For example, to move 77,824 bytes it could have looped 304 times with nothing 
>left over. Instead it looped 303 times, then did another MVC of 256 bytes.
> 
Is the size a constant or a variable?

That may avoid treating the multiple-of-256 (considered unlikely?) as
a special case.

If the size is 256 bytes or less, does it execute the loop zero times then
then move the rest at the end?

-- 
gil

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