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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:56:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper
 functions
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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