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GCC built-in memcpy

GCC built-in memcpy

Posted Nov 13, 2010 1:11 UTC (Sat) by rriggs (subscriber, #11598)
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

I am pretty sure that GCC, on at least one architecture I use (SPARC, I think), has a built-in memcpy which is implemented such that overlapping copies fail. I benefit by having this defect made visible on more common processor architecture.


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