> --- Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Speaking to just pure style, though, that while loop
> > reminds me of the
> > most efficient C snippet I've ever seen. It's the
> > standard implementation
> > of strcpy.
> >
> > for (;*s;)
> > *d++ = *s++;
>
>
> One question about this code snippet: Won't it fail to copy
> the terminating '\0' into the target string?
Well, first, it's not really what I'd consider the classic
strcpy:
while (*d++ = *s++);
That one will copy the null on the last iteration (the one
that fails the test).
Mike McNally | Turtle, turtle, on the ground,
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