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Re: [PATCH] shut up warnings in bits/string2.h

To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shut up warnings in bits/string2.h
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
Date: 07 Dec 1999 23:38:43 -0800
Cc: libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <19991207220811.M515@mff.cuni.cz>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> This patch shuts up gcc 2.96 warnings about long switch expressions not
> converted to int.

Well, rth commented that this might fail for long strings.  But those
strings must be string constants, not actual strings.  And gcc (nor
any other compiler) will have support for strings of more than 2^32
character in length.  So it should be possible to apply the patch.

> How does it work on other architectures?

Which functions?  The generic functions should perform quite good.
The copying of constant strings work by moving immedate values which
is much faster.

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