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Re: direction flag issue?

To: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: direction flag issue?
From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:41:50 +0000

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:45:27PM +0100, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> if a process is interrupted with a signal while doing overlapping
> memmove or running some other code with DF flag set ...

That reminds me, we should try very hard not to set DF for memmove.
'rep movs' backwards is rather slower than doing it forwards....

        David

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David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost

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