On Thu, Aug 04 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > [...] >> ... or in any case we'd want to re-rest that the compilers we >> care about similarly optimize it. > > Perhaps. Using struct assignment only when we feel an urge to use > memcpy() in a new code (or in the postimage of a newly rewritten > code), instead of doing a bulk update, would give us a chance to > start small and vet the result with compilers of such a small scale > rewrite carefully to build confidence, hopefully? I think it would make sense to set out a baloon for it, but as some of it (and I'll note this in a re-roll) involves some new C99 support I'd prefer not to conflate that with this series.
