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Date: 2010mar8

Q.  What's a quick way to move a doubleword (4 bytes)?
    (eg an IPv4 address)

A.  You could do this:

	memcpy(&to_buffer, &dwFrom, sizeof(DWORD));

But this is faster:

	*((DWORD *)&to_buffer) = dwFrom;

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