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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Use __builtin_memset and __builtin_memcpy for memset/memcpy
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:04:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC65CC9.4000105@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpkpbo3t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

On 10/02/2009 12:19 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> I tried this some time ago, but it it generates bad code on some 
> gcc 3 versions.
> 
> You really need to test such kind of changes on a wide variety
> of compilers, not assuming everyone uses the same version as you.
> 

The version that went in is for gcc 4 only.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-02 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-28  9:34 [PATCH] x86: Use __builtin_memset and __builtin_memcpy for memset/memcpy Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-28 12:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-28 23:47   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-29 12:44 ` [PATCH] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-09-29 12:53   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-29 15:32   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-02 19:19 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-02 20:04   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-10-02 20:12     ` Andi Kleen

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