Subject: Re: macppc kernel make -j4 fail
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/09/2003 19:09:53
[ moved to port-powerpc ]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:03:43AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> Well, IIRC bzero.S was temporarily(?) disabled about 1.5 years ago
> because it uses cachelinesize which should be determined
> at runtime (and it might cause problem on stand alone programs etc).
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-powerpc/2001/12/
> 
> I don't know if there is any conclusion about this.

I'd say remove it. It can be cvs add'ed back later if needed.
Nothing in the kernel uses bzero anymore, so I don't think it's worth
trying to optimise it.
I guess gcc will inline the memset() calls.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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