On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 01:14:16PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:

> 
> [*] In case you want an example where this is at least debatable (and I
>     happen to disgree with what he wrote on the topic). The simplest way
>     to implement a block memory copy in C is

Correction:

> 
>     static void cpy(char *d, char const *s, size_t len)
>     {
>       while (len) --len, d[len] = s[len];
        while (len){ --len, d[len] = s[len]; |
>     }
> 

It may have been simple, but not correct.

The real point here, though, is that it was simple enough for someone 
to fix it  easily!  This is the whole point of using simple tools that 
do one thing,

-- hendrik
 
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