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From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no>
Subject: Re: Is an RTOS Required for Ada?
Date: 1999/05/20
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Robert Dewar wrote
>For example, in GNORT mode, the compiler will generate an open
>loop for a block copy, to avoid calling the bcopy routine in
>the run-time


I'm rather surprised. I would assume that the most eficient way of doin this
would be to use inline assembly code. I thought most cpus have a nice set of
special instructions that will do this. Could there be problems with using
these instructions?


Greetings,