On Sep 7, 2005, at 4:06 PM, McKown, John wrote:
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Another possibility is "poorly" coded C. I've seen too many programs
from the "old days" which use a C coded loop to move data, one byte at
a
time, from one variable to another:
char var1[100], var2[100];
char *in, *out;
in=var1;
out=var2;
for (;*in;out++=in++);
This works OK on an Intel PC. IIRC, it was the ONLY way to do it on the
PDP boxes.
John,
Of course you are correct. I didn't mean to let the PC weenies off so
easily. I thought the person who origanally wrote the item had an issue
with the IBM side. That being that C++ was faster than COBOL. I may
have misunderstood the point the author was writing about. I think
there have been other posters in past years saying much of the same
thing, tyough.
Ed
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