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SubjectRe: where did memset go?


On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:34:25PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
<SNIP>
> > Any other suggestions are welcome :)
>
> Ok then. The issue is that gcc generates internally that memset for the
> local structure assignment. You can workaround it by doing what the patchlet
> sais. I think this is a bug in gcc because it normally expands memcpy/memset
> internally on i386.
> But I wonder why i386 does not export memcpy/memset for such cases, IMHO it
> should.
> But the patch below gives you more efficient code anyway.
<SNIP>

Hmmm I did upgrade to potato in the mean time... maybe the new gcc
is where the bug started?
I'll apply the patch and mention you in it :)
Thanx!

Greets,
Jeroen




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