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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:30:14 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r351700 - head/lib/libc/string
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 10:11, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Functionally equivalent, although I compared the compiled output of
> both cases and what's currently there is somewhat smaller. Note that
> it's not an #else case, the equivalent loop is used in both cases -
> handling the non-word-size residue in the __GNUC__ case.

Ah, actually I think I'm mistaken here - what's in the tree does
indeed compile to a slightly smaller object, but just due to arbitrary
nop alignment.



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