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Re: Patent on aligned memcpy
- To: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Subject: Re: Patent on aligned memcpy
- From: Per Bothner <bothner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:58:50 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
If you'd read the abstract more carefully, you would see it
is not a patent on "aligned memcpy".
The key sentence is:
"For handling data block transfers of various
sizes and locations, the method is implemented in a compiler that
compiles different portions of code at run time into a block of code
that is then immediately executed."
--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner