[PATCH 4/6] ARM: zImage: gather some string functions into string.c

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Wed Sep 14 09:45:00 EDT 2011


On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Dave Martin wrote:

> Have you seen this?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

Yeah... I did stumble across something similar in the gcc test suite.

> Once I finished vomiting, this actually struck be as rather neat.
> 
> If I've understood right, it seems a good fit for the manual unrolling
> you do here.

Maybe.  However this patch is about moving code, not "improving" it.  ;-)


Nicolas



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