[PATCH RFC] explicit_bzero, again

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Mon Sep 7 22:31:00 GMT 2015



On 07-09-2015 14:18, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> It remains my opinion that the patch as I posted it (with an update to
> the manual -- I will get to that in the next few days) is Good Enough
> and we should not hold off on making the API available until the ideal
> bits/string2.h optimization for it is possible.  I will be sending a
> message to the gcc and clang mailing lists in the next few days to
> open a discussion of that ideal, but I don't have any plans to
> implement it myself.
> 
> zw

Thanks for the detailed analysis, it indeed shows that the 'memread' 
is a better approach.  In fact I was not really obstructing your patch,
just curious about the 'memread' approach, and I apologize if I passed
the impression I was trying to stall your patch based on this specific
optimization. 



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