Re: where did memset go?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 08:35:22 EST


On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:34:25PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:32:13AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > > Did you
> > > #include <linux/string.h>
> > > ?

> > Ehmmm 3 letters: Yep
[...]

> Ok then. The issue is that gcc generates internally that memset for the
> local structure assignment. You can workaround it by doing what the patchlet
> sais. I think this is a bug in gcc because it normally expands memcpy/memset
> internally on i386.
> But I wonder why i386 does not export memcpy/memset for such cases, IMHO it
> should.
> But the patch below gives you more efficient code anyway.

Does compiling with -fno-builtin for all kernels make sense?

PPC does it already, and x86's math emu code too.

Regards,

        Jeff

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