Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/sys
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/06/2001 09:29:11
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:46:14PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
> I don't think any system will need it since gcc provides some of them.
>
> gcc only generates those for machines that have string move instructions.
> For others it calls memmove/memcpy/memset in most circumstance.
Not always. Sometimes it will use wide load/store insns to do the
work.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>