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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Use aligned stores in memset


On 08/18/2017 07:11 AM, Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan wrote:
> 	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/memset.S: Store byte by byte
> 	for unaligned inputs if size is less than 8.

This makes me rather nervous.  powerpc64le was supposed to have
reasonable efficient unaligned loads and stores.  GCC happily generates
them, too.

Thanks,
Florian


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