Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:43:51 +0200 (CEST) | From | <> | Subject | Re: [patch] longstanding chksum patch |
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On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Some month ago I pointed out that the checksum 686 can buffer overflow if > > the start of the buf&1 is != 0. > > And some months ago somebody pointed out that it wasn't true. I don't know > who is right.
also some months ago somebody (who happened to be the implementor of that unrolled 686 loop) pointed out that the 128-byte unrolling is suboptimal as well.
-- mingo
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