Re: p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), )

[Miles Bader]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Actually, some day that migth be a good idea, but at least historically, 
> gcc has really really messed that kind of code up.
>
> Last I looked, depending on what the initializer was, gcc would create a 
> temporary struct on the stack first, and then do a "memcpy()" of the 
> result.

A little test shows:

gcc-3.4.4 seems to still do what you describe.

gcc-4.0.1 seems to  it the "right" way (writing each field directly to
the destination structure).

Someday...

-miles
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