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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace BZERO_P/PIC with USE_AS_BZERO/SHARED
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:59:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace BZERO_P/PIC with USE_AS_BZERO/SHARED
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:43:31AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> Replace BZERO_P with USE_AS_BZERO in i586/i686 memset.S to support i386
> multi-arch memset. Also we should check SHARED not PIC for libc.so
> since libc.a may be compiled with PIC.
>
> OK for master?
>
This is ok as patch.
However as I noted in x64 memset this is ineffective as it doubles code
size for mostly identical code. So as followup one needs to create bzero
stub that jumps into memset. Should I do it?