On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Kjeld Borch Egevang wrote: > I was trying to port SPEC CPU 2000 (benchmarks), and one of the tests > failed. I boiled it down to the attached program. For performance reasons it > could be perfectly valid not to use memset(), but I agree that the code > looks a bit odd. With a high optimization level and a constant size of the area to set (you'd likely use sizeof here, which is constant) gcc will happily inline a memset() yielding no worse performance but no bugs and better readability. You may have no loop at all as the result. Check yourself! -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
