[llvm-dev] array fill idioms

[Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev]

Right, not memcpy/memmove, sorry I should be more careful about that stuff.
REP MOVS looks like the right thing though.  Does LLVM know how to produce that?
Thanks,
--paulr

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Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] array fill idioms

On Nov 10, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:

Back in the day, we called this a BLT (block transfer, pronouced 'blit') for the PDP-10 instruction of that name.

On x86, there is REP MOVS.


You can do this by assigning the first value, then do an overlapping memcpy to fill in the rest.

This is undefined behavior, and really doesn’t work with most modern memcpy( ) implementations (the most common thing these days is to simply implement memmove( ) semantics for memcpy, which will very much not do what you want).

– Steve
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