On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:46:14PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:

 > 	I don't think any system will need it since gcc provides some of them.
 > 
 > gcc only generates those for machines that have string move instructions.
 > For others it calls memmove/memcpy/memset in most circumstance.

Not always.  Sometimes it will use wide load/store insns to do the
work.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>