[PATCH] Reduce code size of _REENT_INIT_PTR()

Freddie Chopin freddie_chopin@op.pl
Fri Apr 26 19:55:00 GMT 2013


W dniu 2013-04-26 21:42, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) pisze:
> On 2013-04-26 03:43, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> Use one memset() to initialize everything to zero.  Set non-zero fields
>> in a second step.  There is only a small runtime overhead, but the code
>> size is greatly reduced.  This change assumes the NULL pointer and '\0'
>> are encoded as zero bits.
>
> This sounds like a candidate for PREFER_SIZE_OVER_SPEED, but AFAICS that
> would mean moving that definition out of configure.host and into
> sys/config.h.

I'm almost sure that memset() version will be both faster and smaller, 
especially because there was a memset() call anyway... In my opinion 
there is no tradeoff in this change - it's just better.

4\/3!!



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