Re: Possible GCC contamination of Linux

Artur Skawina (skawina@geocities.com)
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 03:13:20 +0200


Kurt Garloff wrote:
>
> a patch which adds -fno-builtins to the Makefile and makes the abs() work.

why?

> Wait: What about the speed of builtin memcpy and the routines provided by
> the kernel? I think I remember a discussion about his. Anybody?

depends on cpu i guess. The builtins generate noticably better code when
the length is constant though.

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