c/10339

[Eric Botcazou]

The following reply was made to PR optimization/10339; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c/10339
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:40:04 +0200

 > The x86 backend doesn't seem to use memcmp in this case (maybe it does for
 > different values of string lengths, etc, but I haven't checked that).
 
 Actually, it does the transformation strncmp->memcmp but the builtin memcmp 
 has the nice property to stop on the first NULL character ("repz cmpsb").
 
 Anyway, this is not a Sparc-specific problem.
 
 -- 
 Eric Botcazou