On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Die, 2014-03-18 at 22:11 +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: >> The Coccinelle script scripts/coccinelle/misc/memcpy-assign.cocci look >> for opportunities to replace a call to memcpy by a struct assignment. >> This patch removes memcpy-assign.cocci as it is not clear that this >> convention has an impact on the generated code. > > Using struct assignment keeps the type check and is just for this reason > always preferable over memcpy(). What about the assignment hiding that a potentially large memcpy is happening instead of just a pointer assignment? > > Kind regards, > Bernd > -- > Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > LUGA : http://www.luga.at > -- Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
