[PATCH] lib/decompress_unxz.c: removing all memory helper functions
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu May 24 13:29:26 EDT 2012
On 05/24/2012 10:26 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:03 -0600, T Makphaibulchoke wrote:
>> The patch cleans up the file lib/decompress_unxz.c by removing all memory
>> helper functions, e.g., memmove. By doing so, any architecture's preboot
>> environment supporting the XZ decompression needs to define its own copy of
>> any of the missing memory helper functions.
>
> Perhaps a silly question, but why not use
> the __builtin variants?
For a lot of cases the __builtin variants just generate a call to the
expected out-of-line function, so you need it anyway.
-hpa
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