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Message-Id: <E1IZAbA-0001uz-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:25:04 +0200
From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memset as memzero
In article <20070922124659.741cca42@...topd505.fenrus.org> you wrote:
> it doesn't add value.... memset with a constant 0 is just as fast
> (since the compiler knows it's 0) than any wrapper around it, and the
> syntax around it is otherwise the same.
it would however allow easier changing if you need to add a page cleaning
system (for example new architecture which has support for it). On the other
hand, is memset used for anything else than zero filling or redzone
"filling"?
Gruss
Bernd
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