On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

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In the absence of -mstring and -mno-string options,
GCC will default to either on or off based on other
options (CPU model, mostly).  This is good behaviour
since it intends to give you the best code sequences
for whatever CPU you selected (or for a blended CPU
model etc).

strings instructions suck, get away with it.

No they don't.

End of this particular subthread I suppose, heh.

Really? `They suck!' 'They don't!'...

Ben: Why do they suck?
Segher: Why don't they suck?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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