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Re: Gcc builtin review: memcpy, mempcpy, memmove.

From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Ondřej Bílka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 10:41:04 -0600
Subject: Re: Gcc builtin review: memcpy, mempcpy, memmove.
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On 05/28/2015 10:36 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:

On Mon, 25 May 2015, Ondřej Bílka wrote:

Andrew as I promised review and what you would need to fix for x64 gcc
  and remove ugly gcc hacks and replace them with nice headers :-)

I will take a functions in order from string.h and comment about
these.


Reviews of optimization issues with GCC built-in functions belong
primarily in the GCC context, not glibc at all.

Agreed. Trying to address all this stuff in glibc is wrong. Each issueshould be evaluated and a determination made individually whether theissue should be addressed in gcc or glibc.



Jeff

References:
- Gcc builtin review: memcpy, mempcpy, memmove.
  - From: OndÅej BÃlka
- Re: Gcc builtin review: memcpy, mempcpy, memmove.
  - From: Joseph Myers

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