minix/commands/elle/sbbcpy.c
2009-11-09 10:26:00 +00:00

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1.6 KiB
C

#include "sb.h"
/* BCOPY(from,to,cnt) - Copy string of bytes.
* Normally this routine is an assembly-language library routine,
* but not all systems have it. Hence this C-language version
* which tries to be fairly machine-independent.
* Attempts to be clever about using word moves instead of byte moves.
* Does not hack overlapping backward moves.
*/
bcopy(from, to, cnt) /* Copy count bytes from -> to */
register SBMA from;
register SBMA to;
register unsigned cnt;
{
if(!cnt)
return;
while(rndrem((int)from)) /* Get source aligned */
{ *to++ = *from++;
if(--cnt == 0) return;
}
if(rndrem((int)to) == 0) /* Do word move if dest now aligned */
{ register unsigned tmp;
tmp = cnt;
if((cnt = rnddiv(cnt)) > 4)
{ sbm_wcpy((int *)from, (int *)to, cnt);
if((cnt = rndrem(tmp)) == 0)
return; /* No leftover bytes, all done */
tmp -= cnt; /* Ugh, must update pointers */
from += tmp;
to += tmp;
}
else cnt = tmp; /* Not worth call overhead */
}
do { *to++ = *from++; } /* Finish up with byte loop */
while(--cnt);
}
/* SBM_WCPY - word-move auxiliary routine.
* This is a separate routine so that machines with only a few
* registers have a chance to use them for the word copy loop.
* This cannot be made part of BCOPY without doing some
* unnecessary pointer conversions and using extra variables
* (since most compilers will not accept type casts on lvalues,
* which are needed to treat (char *) as (int *)).
*/
sbm_wcpy(from, to, cnt)
register int *from, *to;
register unsigned cnt;
{
if(cnt)
do { *to++ = *from++; }
while(--cnt);
}