On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Andrew Brunner wrote:

> Thanks.  Actually, after I typed the email I dug around and found a 1500 page 
> PDF file which brought me to these exact functions.  That just confirms it.  
> So these native procedures are what I'll use.  Perhaps I can get away with 
> 
> I'll just edit all my source to accommodate.
> 
> I wonder if I use a larger filler like word that should probably be twice as 
> fast.  But what if I overshoot the length?  Will it cause a memory leak or 
> Read access violation?  Or will the last iteration be adjusted?  Any ideas?

It will be twice as fast. 
Obviously you can only use it for even-sized memory areas. If you overshoot
the length, anything can happen: simple memory corruption or an access
violation...

Michael.

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