# mstringop-strategy, Qstringop-strategy

Lets you override the internal decision heuristic for the particular algorithm used when implementing buffer manipulation functions such as memcpy and memset. This feature is only available for ifort.

## Syntax

Linux: | -mstringop-strategy=alg

macOS: | -mstringop-strategy=alg

Windows: | /Qstringop-strategy:alg

## Arguments

alg | Specifies the algorithm to use. Possible values are:
const_size_loop | Tells the compiler to expand the string operations into an inline loop when the size is known at compile time and it is not greater than threshold value. Otherwise, the compiler uses its own heuristics to decide how to implement the string operation.
libcall | Tells the compiler to use a library call when implementing string operations.
rep | Tells the compiler to use its own heuristics to decide what form of rep movs | stos to use when inlining string operations.

## Default

varies | If optimization option Os is specified, the default is rep. Otherwise, the default is const_size_loop.

## Description

This option lets you override the internal decision heuristic for the particular algorithm used when implementing buffer manipulation functions such as memcpy and memset.

This option may have no effect on compiler-generated string functions, for example, a call to memcpy generated by the compiler to implement an array copy or structure copy.

## IDE Equivalent

None

## Alternate Options

None

Parent topic: Code Generation Options

## See Also

mstringop-inline-threshold, Qstringop-inline-threshold compiler option
Os compiler option