[fpc-pascal] Move() vs MemCopy()
Vincent Snijders
vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl
Tue Sep 29 16:06:32 CEST 2009
Marco van de Voort schreef:
> In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
>>> No.
>> So why is the function called MOVE instead of COPY? :-)
>
> Historical reasons apparantly.
>
I never thought that
mov ax, bx (8086 assembler)
would clear the register after the move.
So I never thought that move would clear the memory (or leave it in a undefined state).
Vincent
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