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Re: APPEAL to steering committee: [Bug target/23605] memset() Optimization on x86-32 bit
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- Cc: Kevin McBride <kevin at planetsaphire dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:44:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: APPEAL to steering committee: [Bug target/23605] memset() Optimization on x86-32 bit
- References: <43123F31.6080309@planetsaphire.com> <m3ll2lr66j.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 04:29:56PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> In the meantime, I think there may be a bug here, in that memset is
> open coded for the i386 at -O0. That doesn't make sense to me; e.g.,
> it prevents setting a breakpoing on memset.
This, IMO, has nothing to do with i386. If we don't want to open-code
memset at -O0, we should have avoided transforming this such that we
call to clear_storage in the first place.
r~