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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modernize i386 string.h
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:49:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120004954.GA3545@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040118200919.GA26573@averell>

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY 1
> +extern void *__memcpy(void *to, const void *from, size_t len); 
> +#define memcpy(dst,src,len) \
> +	({ size_t __len = (len);				\
> +	   void *__ret;						\
> +	   if (__builtin_constant_p(len) && __len >= 128)	\
> +		 __ret = __memcpy((dst),(src),__len);		\
> +	   else							\
> +		 __ret = __builtin_memcpy((dst),(src),__len);	\
> +	   __ret; }) 

Why not just __builtin_memcpy?  Or indeed, why bother defining
anything at all, since the compiler will infer __builtin_memcpy
from the external symbol memcpy.


r~

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-18 20:09 [PATCH] Modernize i386 string.h Andi Kleen
2004-01-19 14:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-19 15:06   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-19 15:10   ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-20  0:49 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2004-01-20  1:39   ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-20  2:04 ` Rusty Russell

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