Date: 19 Jan 2004 16:10:32 +0100
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:10:31 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modernize i386 string.h
Message-ID: <20040119151031.GA64150@colin2.muc.de>
References: <20040118200919.GA26573@averell> <400BE923.1020505@pobox.com>
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> ISTR this patch being shot down in the past...

I don't remember that.

> 
> It seems suboptimal for people with ancient compilers, or for people on 
> embedded 486's, doesn't it?

It is unlikely to make much difference for them. Kernel str* handling
is not very time critical (except memset/memcpy, but they are handled
efficiently on all compilers) The patch is mainly to make the code
more maintainable.

-Andi

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