Re: [PATCH] trivial: the memset operation on a automatic array variable should be optimized out by data initialization

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:15:17PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> we should just alias our memset to the __builtin one, and then provide a
> generic one from lib/ for the cases gcc needs to do a fallback.

The last time I checked, gcc generated horrible badly performing code for 
builtin memset/memcpy() when -Os is specified.

		-ben
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