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From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>, <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
Subject: Re: Evolution of ELF symbol management
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611221740050.26722@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <137dfcf1-eeeb-89c6-9882-b290983bc482@redhat.com>

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:

> I have no idea at all why __bzero was introduced.  It doesn't look like a

It used to be used in a bits/string2.h definition of memset which 
involved:

  __builtin_constant_p (c) && (c) == '\0'
  ? ({ void *__s = (s); __bzero (__s, n); __s; })
  : memset (s, c, n)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-22 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-18  9:26 Florian Weimer
2016-10-18 16:50 ` Joseph Myers
2016-10-25 14:32   ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-25 15:37     ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-21 15:35       ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-26 12:17     ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-20 11:13     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-11-21 10:12       ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-16 15:55 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-18 15:48   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-19 17:25     ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-22 15:09       ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-22 15:30         ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-22 15:39           ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-22 15:48             ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-22 15:48               ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-22 17:42         ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2016-11-23 14:09         ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-24 10:01           ` Florian Weimer

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