[PATCH 2/*] Remove pre-gcc 3.4 string inline optimizations.
Ondřej Bílka
neleai@seznam.cz
Mon Jun 8 10:30:00 GMT 2015
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:05:56PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 2015, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
>
> > -/* GCC < 3.0 optimizes memset(s, 0, n) but not bzero(s, n).
> > - The optimization is broken before EGCS 1.1.
> > - GCC 3.0+ has __builtin_bzero as well, but at least till GCC 3.4
> > - if it decides to call the library function, it calls memset
> > - and not bzero. */
> > -# if __GNUC_PREREQ (2, 91)
> > -# define __bzero(s, n) __builtin_memset (s, '\0', n)
> > -# endif
>
> It looks like you're removing a definition that would be used with current
> GCC here.
>
As comment says its unnecessary as gcc 4 converts bzero to memset as
this header tries.
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