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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-07-05 01:09:15 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-07-05 01:09:15 +0530
commit96baf6ffc57b811bbc424a1fc72ef77dd56d7a18 (patch)
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parent1570a72bb8359c9a3a64c4e22d9ea47ce6fcff31 (diff)
downloadglibc-96baf6ffc57b811bbc424a1fc72ef77dd56d7a18.tar.gz
Add comment for MEMCPY_OK_FOR_FWD_MEMMOVE
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/generic/memcopy.h3
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a9574c9508..d5458c7030 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-07-04 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+
+ * sysdeps/generic/memcopy.h: Add comment for
+ MEMCPY_OK_FOR_FWD_MEMMOVE.
+
2014-07-04 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* string/memchr.c: Merge from gnulib.
diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/memcopy.h b/sysdeps/generic/memcopy.h
index 45c5fcb479..f7b9423f0e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/generic/memcopy.h
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/memcopy.h
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ extern void _wordcopy_bwd_dest_aligned (long int, long int, size_t) __THROW;
/* Threshold value for when to enter the unrolled loops. */
#define OP_T_THRES 16
+/* Set to 1 if memcpy is safe to use for forward-copying memmove with
+ overlapping addresses. This is 0 by default because memcpy implementations
+ are generally not safe for overlapping addresses. */
#define MEMCPY_OK_FOR_FWD_MEMMOVE 0
#endif /* memcopy.h */