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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] kernel: Move arches to use common unaligned access
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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:11:28 +0100

> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > - * impractical. So, now we fall back to using memcpy.
> > + * impractical. So, now we fall back to using memmov.
>
> That's memmove, not memmov. Any why memmove, not memcpy? Is __tmp likely to
> overlap with *ptr?

No, I think it has something to do with what cases GCC is allowed to
optimize the call inline and what cases it cannot wrt. alignment of
datums.


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