Re: [Gnu-arch-users] hackerlab str_ functions performance

[Florian Weimer]

* Jan Hudec:

> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:08:21 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Yann Droneaud:
>> 
>> > Just checkout :
>> > /usr/include/bits/string.h
>> >
>> > There are some assembler function here at least on i386 (for other
>> > architecture i'm not sure). 
>> 
>> Recent GCC versions don't use these inline functions.
>
> This stuff is not installed by gcc, but by glibc.

So what?

> Gcc must use them if they are there and can't do anything about it.

Of course it can.  In recent versions, strlen() etc. are mapped to
builtins.