Re: [PATCH 3/4] xtensa: Change unaligned access to use packedstruct implementation

From: Harvey Harrison
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 01:40:00 EST


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:16 -0700, Chris Zankel wrote:
> Hi Harvey,
>
> Please allow me a couple of days to look into it. I don't know the
> historic reasons why the memmove variant was chosen.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris
>

Sure, from the comments in the original version, it looks like it was done
this way to avoid __builtin_memcpy from being generated. But maybe there was another
reason?

Harvey



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