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Re: [RFC] strcpy optimizations
From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:00:00 -0500
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:27:28PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> It's certainly the case that strcpy et al must never write to any byte
>> of the address space that its user-visible semantics do not allow it to
>> change. (On a machine where the smallest size of write is larger than a
>> byte, then of course it can write the whole smallest possible unit
>> containing a byte that it's supposed to write.) Likewise, they must not
>
> Such machines are not conforming(*) to the POSIX or C11 memory models;
> I don't think it's useful to support them, and in fact I don't think
> glibc supports any such machines anyway.
>
> (*) Technically they could be made to conform, if EVERY single memory
> access were wrapper by the compiler with a machine-wide lock/unlock
> pair.
I think we still support the older Alpha's which don't have byte/half-word
loads and stores.