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From: rubenst%occs.nlm.nih.gov (Mike Rubenstein Phoenix Contract)
Subject: Re: how to completely get rid of bcopy, bzero, bcmp?
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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 95 22:31:12 GMT
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
> Ideally you should use M4, if you have it. M4 was designed for just this
> sort of task:
> m4 -D'bcopy=memcpy($2,$1,$3)' \
> -D'bzero=memset($1,0,$2)' \
> -D'bcmp=memcmp($1,$2,$3)' file.bsd > file.posix
which should be very exciting if your code contains something like:
typedef struct { int a; } rm;
void syscmd(rm *);
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Mike Rubenstein