i686/memmove.S always copies backwards when dst > src
Ondřej Bílka
neleai@seznam.cz
Tue Jan 7 19:40:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:20:02AM +1300, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
> On 8/01/2014, at 7:23 am, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:20:47PM +1300, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
> ...
> >>
> >> I've created BZ #16394. The attached patch was tested in i686 environment with memmove ifunc forced to resolve to implementation in sysdeps/i386/i686/memmove.S.
> >>
> >> I will check in the patch in 24 hours since at least 3 developers have looked at it and confirmed that it is the right fix.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> > As I said above it looks correct, who else?
>
> You, Yuriy and myself. Also, I've spent a good deal of time in the debugger to confirm that the bug cannot trigger wrong behavior, and managed to convince myself of that.
>
Yeah, I did not count yourself so I bit wondered.
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