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Re: Orca/M bug MVN & MVP?



In article <1vicrb$a9d@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG> Phillip Vandry,
vandry@CAM.ORG writes:
> I guess the moral here is to just use _BlockMove and let the memory
manager
> worry about it :-)

Correct.  Or, you can use the MOVE_INFO vector under GS/OS (see the GS/OS
Device Driver reference, and a technical note giving you a $E1 vector for
calling it).  MOVE_INFO also winds up doing one or more MVN/MVPs for you,
but there is a little less dispatching overhead than for BlockMove.

Dave Lyons, dlyons@apple.com
Mr Tangent

My opinions are my own, not Apple's.