Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:39:49 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Coccicheck: Remove memcpy to struct assignment test | From | Peter Senna Tschudin <> |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote: > On Die, 2014-03-18 at 22:11 +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: >> The Coccinelle script scripts/coccinelle/misc/memcpy-assign.cocci look >> for opportunities to replace a call to memcpy by a struct assignment. >> This patch removes memcpy-assign.cocci as it is not clear that this >> convention has an impact on the generated code. > > Using struct assignment keeps the type check and is just for this reason > always preferable over memcpy(). What about the assignment hiding that a potentially large memcpy is happening instead of just a pointer assignment?
> > Kind regards, > Bernd > -- > Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at > LUGA : http://www.luga.at >
-- Peter
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