From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwZBo-0002L6-Ld for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 05:38:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6O5ZgAb027127; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 05:35:42 GMT Received: from aclx24.physik.rwth-aachen.de (aclx24.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.20.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6O5ZfxD012719 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 05:35:41 GMT Received: by aclx24.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 3205) id A4E16D3239; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:36:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aclx24.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93997D3238 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:36:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:36:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Ian McCulloch To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] x86_64 optimization patches for glibc. In-Reply-To: <42E30CCE.8060102@erols.com> Message-ID: References: <42E258A7.5080501@telia.com> <42E2C177.6090001@erols.com> <42E2C675.1010905@erols.com> <11fc6a2505072318479fd6473@mail.gmail.com> <42E30CCE.8060102@erols.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: f9d05a42-4f54-4c06-94bc-77780c99f06b X-Archives-Hash: c09f16bd6efc6e5eef6fc2e3b528c3b6 On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: > Sean Johnson wrote: > > > LOL! > > That must be for the folk that don't mind patching glibc, but will get > > upset if memcpy does strange things. :) > > > > > > You try to do a good turn and they laugh at you. That'll teach me. Heh ;-) I would like to see a version of memcpy.c that DOES do something malicious, without being completely obvious. This isn't Windows, a seg-fault isn't going to take down the kernel, or corrupt the filesystem;) Cheers Ian -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list