Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Redundant memset in AIO read_events | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:43:06 -0700 | From | "Chen, Kenneth W" <> |
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> <newbie> > There might be some architecture that requires 16 byte alignment... > how about surrounding the memcpy with > if (sizeof(struct io_event) != 4 * sizeof(__u64)) ? > </newbie>
The point I'm trying to make is that it is irrelevant with respect to alignment, size, or padding. memset and struct copying has the same length and destination address. Why bother with the memset? It's the same as writing a code like this:
blah = 0; blah = foo;
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