Patent on aligned memcpy

[Alan Lehotsky]

At 5:57 PM +1000 8/20/98, Geoff Keating wrote:

* Mike wrote about a patent, which appears to be US number 5706483, which
* claims:
*

	Similar code was used in VMS (circa 1977) and if I remember correctly,
it's the canonical example of "Duff's Device" (the C language hack involving
a switch statement without "break" between the cases))

-- AL

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