[PATCH 2/*] Remove pre-gcc 3.4 string inline optimizations.

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Mon Jun 8 11:24:00 GMT 2015


On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Ondřej Bílka wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:05:56PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 May 2015, Ondřej Bílka 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.

This macro definition is of __bzero, not bzero.  GCC does not do anything 
special with __bzero.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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