Martin Mares <m...@ucw.cz> wrote on 2010/04/30 16:39:00: > > Hello! > > > Pehaps this it is always safe to use memcpy in this case, but the man > > page doesn't. > > Neither it is allowed by the C standard. > > > It is also a waste of cycles as the whole op is a NOP. > > Sure -- that's why we have split the copying and in-place conversion.
I am just suggesting to use a bit of defensive programming to avoid potential future bugs but if you don't want too, OK by me. Jocke