Messages in this thread | | | From | "Oleg Verych (nntp)" <> | Subject | Re: memset as memzero | Date | Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:37:06 +0000 (UTC) |
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22-09-2007, Bernd Eckenfels: > In article <20070922124659.741cca42@laptopd505.fenrus.org> you wrote: >> it doesn't add value.... memset with a constant 0 is just as fast >> (since the compiler knows it's 0) than any wrapper around it, and the >> syntax around it is otherwise the same.
linux/arch/x86_64/lib/memset.S isn't file for compile, but for assembler, isn't it? Removing argument processing will have size effect.
> it would however allow easier changing if you need to add a page cleaning > system (for example new architecture which has support for it). []
> On the other hand, is memset used for anything else than zero filling > or redzone "filling"?
There are non zero ones (not sure what redzone is, though).
> Gruss > Bernd (Here are reply-to-all people, BTW) _____
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