Messages in this thread | | | Date | 19 Jan 2004 16:10:32 +0100 | Date | Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:10:31 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Modernize i386 string.h |
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> ISTR this patch being shot down in the past...
I don't remember that.
> > It seems suboptimal for people with ancient compilers, or for people on > embedded 486's, doesn't it?
It is unlikely to make much difference for them. Kernel str* handling is not very time critical (except memset/memcpy, but they are handled efficiently on all compilers) The patch is mainly to make the code more maintainable.
-Andi
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