[PATCH] D22725: [clang-tidy] Add check 'misc-replace-memcpy'

[Jonas Devlieghere via cfe-commits]

JDevlieghere added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D22725#493940, @aaron.ballman wrote:

> > Using std::copy opens up the possibility of type-aware optimizations which are not possible with memcpy.
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> To my knowledge, those type-aware optimizations are for transforming copies involving trivially-copyable types into calls to memcpy(). What other optimizations does this check enable?


I might be mistaken, but I understood that a call to std::copy (whether or not specialized for certain types) might get inlined, while a call to memcpy is typically not.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D22725