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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:15:28 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc:        <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 db_disasm.c
Message-ID:  <20011224171021.Q14802-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011223234316.A84343@locore.ca>

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Jake Burkholder wrote:

> Apparently, On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:12:01PM +1100,
> 	Bruce Evans said words to the effect of;
> > The bug mostly is in the -ffreestanding commit.  It is in the wrong place
> > (not in bsd.kern.mk, so it doesn't affect modules) and is missing
> > -fbuiltin.  Builtin functions were intentionally used for certain
> > optimization, so -fbuiltin is needed until these optimizations are done
> > more explicitly.
>
> The optimizations should be done more explicitly.
>
> What other than memcpy benefits significantly from builtins?

Not much.  A few things like strlen may benefit relatively insignificantly
from smaller code (strlen should not be used in time-critical code).

Bruce


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