[Info-vax] Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems

[Bob Koehler]

In article <iqa4rr$ebl$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> Hmm. Memory alignment issues... Good point.
> Otherwise, I'm also pretty sure that a function like strcpy() is much 
> better to do on your own, as the VAX really don't have a good way of 
> implementing that. Doing first a LOCC to get the length, and then a MOVC 
> to move the string will surely be less efficient than just doing a MOV 
> followed by a conditional branch to loop... Obviously, for C stuff, 
> anything dealing with strings is opposed to how a VAX wants things. :-)

   I never did understand why the VAX C RTL did a LOCC first, instead of a
   MOVTUC with a straight-through translation table and null escape
   charater.  I assumed MOVTUC was even slower.

   The need to find that null character, in any case, always seemed to be 
   one more reason to use a better HLL.