Re: [PATCH 2/3] freevxfs: minor cleanups

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 05:24:19 EST


Hi,

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Come to think of it, it could be a problem if the comnpiler was silly and
> built an entire temporary on the stack and the copied it over. Hopefull it
> won't do that.

It's not really silly, it's exactly what the compiler will do in such
case, unless the final memcpy() is small enough to be inlined.

bye, Roman
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