Gcc builtin review: memcpy, mempcpy, memmove.

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Thu May 28 17:08:00 GMT 2015


On 05/28/2015 10:36 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2015, Ondøej Bílka wrote:
>
>> Andrew as I promised review and what you would need to fix for x64 gcc
>>   and remove ugly gcc hacks and replace them with nice headers :-)
>>
>> I will take a functions in order from string.h and comment about
>> these.
>
> Reviews of optimization issues with GCC built-in functions belong
> primarily in the GCC context, not glibc at all.
Agreed.  Trying to address all this stuff in glibc is wrong.  Each issue 
should be evaluated and a determination made individually whether the 
issue should be addressed in gcc or glibc.


Jeff




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