From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bob Wilson <bwilson@tensilica.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xtensa: Change unaligned access to use packed struct implementation
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:39:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223617187.8991.1.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EEE546.9070405@zankel.net>
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:16 -0700, Chris Zankel wrote:
> Hi Harvey,
>
> Please allow me a couple of days to look into it. I don't know the
> historic reasons why the memmove variant was chosen.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris
>
Sure, from the comments in the original version, it looks like it was done
this way to avoid __builtin_memcpy from being generated. But maybe there was another
reason?
Harvey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 6:38 [PATCH 3/4] xtensa: Change unaligned access to use packed struct implementation Harvey Harrison
2008-10-10 5:16 ` Chris Zankel
2008-10-10 5:39 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
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