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SubjectRe: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, boot protocol


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 01:39:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:54:07 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >...
> > > +
> > > + memcpy(&early_res[i], &early_res[i + 1],
> > > + (j - 1 - i) * sizeof(struct early_res));
> >
> > nit: memcpy() shouldn't be used for overlapping copies. It happens to be
> > OK (for dst<src) in the kernel implementations. We hope.
> >...
>
> We always use the gcc builtin for memcpy() here.

It's probably hard to write a reasonable x86 memcpy() that wouldn't happen
to do the right thing for this case, but I do agee - we should still use
memmove() for this, just to make it clear that it does overlapping things.

Linus


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