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The ups and downs of strlcpy()

The ups and downs of strlcpy()

Posted Jul 20, 2012 22:18 UTC (Fri) by gch (subscriber, #63880)
In reply to: The ups and downs of strlcpy() by renox
Parent article: The ups and downs of strlcpy()

It seems it so common to call strlen then another str* function that a new optimization pass was added to gcc 4.7 to keep track of strings length and thus avoid redundant passes on strings.

See gcc 4.7 release notes:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html


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