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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] valgrind: ignore SSE-based strlen invalid reads
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:43:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ei66ofes.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300273819.7214.12.camel@bee.lab.cmartin.tk> ("Carlos Martín Nieto"'s message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:10:14 +0100")

Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:

>  Looking at that header, strlen is one of the few functions not being
> replaced by its __builtin version, and I only see __builtin_strlen in
> the C++ patches. I'll rephrase to something like "Some versions of
> strlen use SSE which then get inlined" to avoid blaming anyone in
> particular, though thinking about it, it does seem logical that it's
> GCC's builtin strlen.

All processor optimized versions of strlen in glibc are out-of-line, so
any use of SSE can only come from __builtin_strlen.

Andreas.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-16 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-16  9:31 [PATCH] valgrind: ignore SSE-based strlen invalid reads Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-03-16  9:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-16 10:41   ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-03-16 10:47   ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-03-16 10:52     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-16 11:10       ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-03-16 11:25         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-16 11:46           ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-03-16 20:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-16 20:44               ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-03-16 22:43         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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