RE: faster strcpy()
Mikael Klasson (mikael.klasson@sciron.se)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:28:02 +0200
> > > I don't know c or i386 assembler, but there are string commands. Would
> > one of
> > > them do it? I don't have my assembler book handy. Is there a store and
> > > continue while zero?
> >
> > No. There's "rep movsX" (where X is b/w/d) for moving data but that one
> > requires ecx to be initialized to the number of items to copy and
> > doesn't care much about what it's copying. A "lodsd" and "stosd"
>
> What about repnz? What do you think it does?
It's for use with cmpsX and scasX.
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