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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:41 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/24/2012 10:40 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Many of these functions are only optimized in certain cases; if not
> > optimized in a particular case, a call to the library function will be
> > emitted.
> Right, what part of that don't you understand?

:)

Whether or not the many applies to __builtin_mem<foo>.
I believe not.

cheers,

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