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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xtensa: Change unaligned access to use packed
 struct implementation
From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Bob Wilson <bwilson@tensilica.com>
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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:39:47 -0700
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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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