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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Arvind Sankar' <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: "Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
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	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/4] -ffreestanding/-fno-builtin-* patches
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:26:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d865ceb8ef534c21b82f205635426101@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200818222542.GA3254379@rani.riverdale.lan>

From: Arvind Sankar
> Sent: 18 August 2020 23:26
...
> gcc-10 optimizes the generic memset implementation in there into a call
> to memset. Now that's on x86 which doesn't use the generic
> implementation, but this is just waiting to bite us.
> 
> https://godbolt.org/z/6EhG15

Gah, if I want a call to memset() I'll write a call to memset().
If I'm trying to zero a small number of bytes I'll write a loop
because it'll be faster.

I wish compilers wouldn't even consider these sorts of 'optimisations'.

	David

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-19  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-17 22:02 [PATCH 0/4] -ffreestanding/-fno-builtin-* patches Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] Makefile: add -fno-builtin-stpcpy Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-17 22:31   ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-17 23:36     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:21     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-18  7:10   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-08-18  7:25     ` Greg KH
2020-08-18  7:29       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-08-18  7:34         ` Greg KH
2020-08-18 19:23   ` Kees Cook
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] Revert "lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp" Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18  5:44   ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-08-18 18:00     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:24       ` Kees Cook
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86/boot: use -fno-builtin-bcmp Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:24   ` Kees Cook
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: don't build CONFIG_X86_32 as -ffreestanding Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:24   ` Kees Cook
2021-01-07  0:27   ` Fangrui Song
2022-04-07 15:34   ` [tip: x86/build] x86/build: Don't " tip-bot2 for Nick Desaulniers
2022-04-07 17:01     ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-04-07 22:28       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-08-17 22:44 ` [PATCH 0/4] -ffreestanding/-fno-builtin-* patches H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-18 17:56   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:02     ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-18 19:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-18 19:25         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:58           ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-19 12:19             ` Clement Courbet
2020-08-18 20:24         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 20:27           ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 20:58             ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 21:41               ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 21:51                 ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-18 21:59                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 22:05                   ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-18 23:22                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-20 14:56                 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-08-20 17:56                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-20 18:05                     ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-20 23:33                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 17:29                       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 17:54                         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 18:02                           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 19:14                             ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 19:23                               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 19:57                           ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 20:03                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-08-21 21:39                             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-22  0:12                               ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-22 12:20                                 ` David Laight
2020-08-21  6:45                     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-08-24 15:57                 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-08-24 17:34                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-25  7:10                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-25  7:31                       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-25 12:28                       ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-08-25 14:02                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-26 13:28                           ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-08-18 21:53               ` David Laight
2020-08-20 22:41               ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-20 23:17                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 19:35       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 22:25 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 22:59   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 23:51     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-19  0:20     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-19  8:26   ` David Laight [this message]

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