Improve block memory operations by GCC
Registered by
Ramana Radhakrishnan
This blueprint is for investigating and improving block memory operations like memset and memclr generated by GCC and for backporting improvements done for unaligned access from upstream.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Michael Hope
- Priority:
- Not
- Drafter:
- Ramana Radhakrishnan
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 4.6
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
-
backlog
- Started by
- Matthew Gretton-Dann
- Completed by
- Matthew Gretton-Dann
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
[2013-05-29 matthew-
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Work Items
Work items:
Investigate automatic generation of calls to memset . Check if inline generation of memset is worth-while in a few cases especially where the size and alignment is known. (1w): TODO
Investigate automatic generation of calls to memclr (1w): TODO
Implement improvements in generation of calls to memset (1w): TODO
Implement improvements in generation of calls to memclr (1w): TODO
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
