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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:21:28 +0800
From: "rae l" <crquan@gmail.com>
To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: the memset operation on a automatic array variable should be optimized out by data initialization
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On 6/19/07, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Denis Cheng wrote:
> > From: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
> >
> > the explicit memset call could be optimized out by data initialization,
> > thus all the fill working can be done by the compiler implicitly.
> >
>
> How does the generated code change?  Does gcc do something stupid like
> statically allocate a prototype structure full of zeros, and then memcpy
> it in?  Or does it generate a series of explicit assignments for each
> member?  Or does it generate a memset anyway?
>
> Seems to me that this gives gcc the opportunity to be more stupid, and
> the only right answer is what we're doing anyway.
>
>     J
>
Technically speaking, C standard guarantees the data be initialized correctly;
just from the point view of code style, let the compiler selects how
to initialize will be better, this could let the compiler has more
optimization points.

-- 
Denis Cheng
Linux Application Developer
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