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Subject: Re: Replace bcopy() to update ether_addr
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>
> Even without this tagging, the code to do a structure level copy of 6 bytes is going to be tiny...

true.

just to make sure it will be absolutely portable how about

bcopymacaddress(dst,src)

and then define it whatever you find it fastest on any architecture?