memcpy, memset, memcmp and friends in the D Runtime

[Mike]

On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 22:42:54 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 14:05:38 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>>
>> What's this for then? 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/rt/memset.d
>
> Those appear to be the implementations of the a[] = x syntax as 
> compiler builtins and provide even more of a reason to it.  
> They are internal to the runtime.  I was wondering why such 
> methods aren't part of the runtime's interface and I believe I 
> received the answer.
>
> I'm still wondering if the usage of memcpy in phobos could be 
> replaced with something more 'D'. a[] = b[] could always be 
> translated to a call to memcpy in the platform's runtime port.  
> Maybe I'll do some tests and submit a pull request.

Apologies, John.  I see now you were responding to Orvid, not me.