[Buildroot] [PATCH] uClibc: ARC: enable generic string implementations

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 15:18 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Alexey Brodkin,
> 
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:54:11 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> 
> > > If nobody cares, then we just enable the option. And people will
> > > complain when/if it breaks for them.
> > 
> > So should I wait for some time or it's time to send a patch that enables
> > the option for everybody in uClibc-*.config?
> 
> I'd say yes. The uClibc Config.in help text for this option recommends
> to enable it, and it defaults to y, so I think it's pretty safe.

Ok so will do it shortly.

> Regarding ARC, I see that there are arch-specific optimized string
> functions in libc/string/arc/, written in assembly. So by enabling
> GENERIC_OPT, what you gained is that you have optimized versions for
> those functions that don't have an ARC-specific assembly implementation?

Absolutely correct, we're getting better results for functions not
implemented in ASM.

-Alexey