convert ia64 strcat() from assembly to C

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de
Fri Apr 23 06:11:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:50:59PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> The patch below simply converts the assembly file
> sysdeps/ia64/strcat.S to C.  There was no point in writing it in
> assembly since a compiler can trivially do just as well.
> 
> "make check" passed with no new problems.
> 
> Please apply (and be sure to remove sysdeps/ia64/strcat.S).

What speaks against the (more complicated) version in
sysdeps/generic/strcat.c?



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