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Re: Patent on aligned memcpy
- To: Per Bothner <bothner at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Patent on aligned memcpy
- From: Branko Cibej <branko dot cibej at hermes dot si>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:26:21 +0200
- Cc: Mike Stump <mrs at wrs dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Organization: HERMES SoftLab
- References: <199808200558.WAA24684@cygnus.com>
Actually, this seems to be a patent for the BitBlt in the Windows GDI library.
It's quite an interesting idea, too with a pretty smart implementation, but I
don't believe it would be useful in a compiler.
Brane
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