> > third, gcc unconditionally generating clds everywhere is a compiler
> > issue, which should be fixed in compiler land. something like
> > -mno-implicit-clds. (working around the problem by disabling gcc
> > optimizations isn't an optimal solution)
>
> i believe the 'ideal' solution would be to let users override GCC's
> internal memcpy/etc. functions. Right now it's about cld's. But maybe in
> the (not so far) future we want to use SIMD instructions to do memory
> copies, etc.
Why? If you have better implementation of memcpy than gcc's, right way
is to modify gcc to use your version.
Pavel
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