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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:55:43 -0700
From: enh <enh@...gle.com>
To: libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@...il.com>, gcc@....gnu.org,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>
Subject: Re: Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc
(Android libc maintainer.)
should __memcmpeq be in compiler-rt rather than libc?
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 1:35 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021, Chris Kennelly wrote:
>
> > In terms of relying on the feature: If __memcmpeq is ever exposed as an
> a
> > simple alias for memcmp (since the notes mention that it's a valid
> > implementation), does that open up the possibility of depending on the
> > bcmp-like behavior that we were trying to escape?
>
> The proposal is as an ABI only (compilers would generate calls to
> __memcmpeq from boolean uses of memcmp, users wouldn't write calls to
> __memcmpeq directly, __memcmpeq wouldn't be declared in installed libc
> headers). If such dependence arises, that would suggest a compiler bug
> wrongly generating such calls for non-boolean memcmp uses.
>
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@...esourcery.com
>
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