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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce __fill_user() and kill __bzero()
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:48:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114134840.GN8363@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473AEB52.40501@gmail.com>

Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > In general we do (think of stack unwinding etc.).  I believe this
> > implementation should move to C, as it doesn't need an assembler
> > implementation:
> > 
> > void *memset (void *s, int c, kernel_size_t n)
> > {
> > 	__fill_user(s, c, n);
> > 	return s;
> > }
> > 
> > It looks much nicer that way. :-)
> > 
> 
> Sure but memset.S was a really good place to implement memset(), wasn't
> it ?

What about using memset.c and fill_user.S ?

> And since the implementation should have been trivial,

As you found out now, nothing is trivial in assembler. :-)

> I thought it was ok to implement in assembly.

As a general rule, assembly should only be used when C doesn't cut it.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-11  8:48 [PATCH] Introduce __fill_user() and kill __bzero() Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-11 13:01 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-11-11 13:57   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-14  8:24   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-14 11:58     ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-11-14 12:34       ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-14 13:48         ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2007-11-14 15:13           ` Franck Bui-Huu

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