Patent on aligned memcpy

Per Bothner bothner@cygnus.com
Wed Aug 19 22:58:00 GMT 1998


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



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