Re: [PATCH] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper functions

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 24 2012 - 13:57:42 EST


On 05/24/2012 10:50 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:41 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 05/24/2012 10:40 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> Many of these functions are only optimized in certain cases; if not
>>> optimized in a particular case, a call to the library function will be
>>> emitted.
>> Right, what part of that don't you understand?
>
> :)
>
> Whether or not the many applies to __builtin_mem<foo>.
> I believe not.
>

There are definitely cases where gcc can call these out of line. I
already told you that.

-hpa


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