From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Arvind Sankar' <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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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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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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