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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
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Subject: Re: memmove broken on alpha - was Re: NFS oddity (2.4.0test13pre4ac2 server, 2.0.36/2.2.14 clients)
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On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:18:25AM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>   As the patch by mr. Kokshaysky is quite different doing more work
>   (and not only label name changes), I would prefer Richard Henderson
>   to act as an umpire to tell if your patch is sufficient, or if that
>   big thing by Kokshaysky is needed.

Ivan's code is needed.  You can't fall back to memcpy when
there is overlap.  The ev6 version _will_ corrupt data if
you do.


r~
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