Subject: Re: bzero
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 11/13/2001 17:54:06
>>>>> Bill Studenmund writes:

Bill> Of course I'm not sure what will happen for staticly linked programs.
Bill> Is it broken or just slow to use the wrong size?

	It's broken.  The dcbz instruction operates on cache lines.
Either you zero more memory than you intended or don't zero enough.

David