On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> __constant_memcpy was used for small, constant-sized cases AFTER
> the kernel made the decision not to hand the copy duties over to the
> kernel's MMX/SSE code. Take a look at the bottom of the patch below,
> and also this snip from a non-hacked string.h, for illustration...
This is the part I don't like
#define memcpy(t, f, n) \
(__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \
- __constant_memcpy((t),(f),(n)) : \
+ __builtin_memcpy((t),(f),(n)) : \
__memcpy((t),(f),(n)))
Notice? Our old __constant_memcpy() would do the rigth thing for large
copies. In conrast, I don't know that gcc will do so.
Linus
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