Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:27:04 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lib: string.c: A speed optimized for strncpy |
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On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 06:01:43PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: > Hi > > Yes, it can be faster, even if it is as you say, probably a difference > depending on the size of the count. > And even greater need to test this on a variety of hardware :-/
Most architectures (the notable exception is ARM) have an their own optimized strncpy() function. Probably strzcpy() should just call it.
char *strzcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count) { strncpy(dest, src, count); if (count) dest[count - 1] = '\0'; return dest; }
regards, dan carpenter
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