[GLIBC][PATCH] Remove strcmp inlines

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Mon Dec 12 23:10:00 GMT 2016


On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> I tend to agree with your rationale, however tying remove existing 
> string2.h microoptimization with compiler support one can argue that
> we still need to support old compiler and then it will require multiple 
> releases to actually remove such code.

Well, considering the GNU system as a whole a minimum if the optimization 
is plausibly useful would be at least to make sure there is a GCC bug 
filed for it before removing the optimization from glibc.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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