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On Aug 21, 2012, at 1:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>>=20
>> Even without this tagging, the code to do a structure level copy of 6 =
bytes is going to be tiny...
>=20
> true.
>=20
> just to make sure it will be absolutely portable how about
>=20
> bcopymacaddress(dst,src)
>=20
> and then define it whatever you find it fastest on any architecture?

How about just changing it to the *dst =3D *src, compiling it on all =
architectures and then deciding if the improvement of the code from a =
hand-tweaked thing is worth that uglification?

Warner