Re: [C--] Cannot compute string literal length correctly

Norman Ramsey wrote:
>  > It seems qc-- don't complain about this  assignment "bits160[_fr] = 
>  > bits160[_fa]".  
>  > In general, can I say an assignment of the form "bitsN[a] = bitsN[b]", 
>  > where N is a constant dividable by memsize 8,  is legal in C--.
>
> Yes; this assignment is implemented by block copy if the machine has
> an instruction and by a two register load-load-store-store loop
> otherwise.
>   
Thanks for this confirmation. 

It's an elegant instruction. I can use it to implement the structural 
assignment allowed in C99.
It seems the loop is actually unrolled.

Ning
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