[LLVMdev] LLVM and newlib progress

[Chris Lattner]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Pertti Kellomäki wrote:
>> There isn't any really good reason to have an llvm intrinsic for write,
>> just leave 'write' as an external function.
>
> So is the opportunity for inlining the only reason for e.g. the
> llvm.memcpy intrinsic?

No.  llvm.memcpy exists because the intrinsic conveys information the 
libcall doesn't: alignment information.  Other libcalls (e.g. cos) *are* 
inlined, even as direct calls to cos, with no intrinsic.

-Chris

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