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Re: [patch, mips, memmove] Remove memmove's use of memcpy on MIPS
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 20:16 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Steve Ellcey wrote:
>
> > Rather then use a slower safer prefetch for memcpy, which would also fix
> > this problem, I would like to remove the setting of MEMCPY_OK_FOR_FWD_MEMMOVE
> > in memmove.c.
>
> Removing the MIPS memmove.c is OK. There's no point in having the file
> when it doesn't define MEMCPY_OK_FOR_FWD_MEMMOVE
I am hoping to improve memcpy at some point so that it will be safe to
use memcpy in memmove again. Given that, do you think I should still
just remove the MIPS memmove.c and recreate it later when needed or
would it make sense to keep it so I can just set the macro when it is
safe to do so.
Steve Ellcey
sellcey@mips.com