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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper
 functions
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:40:12 -0700
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On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 10:30 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/12/2012 10:26 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > Instead of copying, maybe this would be much better to make the content 
> > of lib/string.c usable in a pre-boot environment.

> Not sure about that... a lot of it is #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_* and you
> *really* want those optimizations on some arches.

Can __weak be used?

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