Re: What is Delta??

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

Keith Thompson wrote:
> "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com> writes:
> [...]
>> - Handling message buffers by interfacing to the strcpy() function and
>> using it to move bytes from memory buffer arrays to and from record
>> components.
[...]

> Most of these sound horrendous, but one of them may not be.
> 
> C's strcpy() function copies a C-style string, terminated by a NUL
> character.  If a NUL-terminated string format is imposed by some
> external interface, then interfacing to strcpy() might be the most
> reasonable approach.  Hand-written code to do the same thing, either
> in C or in Ada, could easily be less efficient and more error-prone; a
> C library's implementation of strcpy() is free to use system-specific
> performance tricks and is likely to be thoroughly tested.

Actually, I realized I misspoke -- it's been a few years since I did 
this.  It wasn't strcpy(), it was memmove() that was used to handle 
memory buffering, with all the accompanying 'Address and 'Size 
calculations being explicitly performed in code.

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