memcpy overlap: quickly detect, diagnose, work around

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Nov 30 14:52:03 UTC 2010


John Reiser wrote:
> Right.  However, specifying the flag -fno-builtin-memcpy at compilation
> disables gcc inlining of memcpy

But not glibc's.

You need -D__NO_STRING_INLINES too. (That said, the most aggressive inlining 
is disabled by default and only enabled if you use -D__USE_STRING_INLINES.)

In any case, it means you need to recompile the executables, not just drop 
in the modified glibc.

        Kevin Kofler



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