On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:24:30PM -0400, rpjday wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Ken Gosier wrote:
>
> >
> > --- 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?
>
> while (*d++ = *s++) ;
>
> or something to that effect, as i recall.
Yeah, this is correct. I shouldn't have written that code snippet without
my recommended daily allowance of coffee.
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