From: Rickard Strandqvist
> > 2014-09-15 10:47 GMT+02:00 David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com>:
...
> > Or:
> > char name[sizeof netdev->name];
> > memcpy(name, netdev->name, sizeof netdev->name);
> >
...
> I liked the variant:
> char name[sizeof(netdev->name)];
>
> But dislike and do not understand what the point would be with memcpy variant.
The memcpy() will be a lot faster than any of the string copy functions
because it doesn't need to worry about the terminator.
In many cases it will be inlined to a short series of load and stores.
David
