strncpy

strncpy

Posted Aug 21, 2003 21:49 UTC (Thu) by armcc (subscriber, #5827)
In reply to: strncpy by paulsheer
Parent article: Kernel release status

> one of the deficiencies of C (and most (all?)
> compiler languages) is that you do not have
> direct access to the carry bit.

Could be a problem for architectures (e.g. MIPS) which don't have one :-)

(Actually, the MIPS architecture was designed around C, so if C had given carry bit access from the start maybe MIPS wouldn't have the problem...)

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