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SubjectRe: [patch] string.h speedup, cld-2.3.30-A1
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> much of the remaining 284 cld's is still unjustified, because '*a = *b;'
> type of structure copies are inlined by GCC. (GCC generates a cld because
> user-space has to be prepared to be interrupted by uncooperative signal
> handlers and the like).

What!? A signal handler can change flags? Then there's a lot more for GCC
to worry about than the direction flag..

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