[PATCH] Replace loop by memset in sal/typesconfig/typesconfig.c

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

Il 24/12/2012 15:45, julien2412 ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> By taking a look at the file  sal/typesconfig/typesconfig.c, GetAlignment
> function, I wonder if we could replace the for loop by a memset to optimize
> a bit.
> So here's a straightforward patch:
> diff --git a/sal/typesconfig/typesconfig.c b/sal/typesconfig/typesconfig.c
> index 473f07a..ef52c5f 100644
> --- a/sal/typesconfig/typesconfig.c
> +++ b/sal/typesconfig/typesconfig.c
> @@ -262,11 +262,9 @@ int GetAlignment( Type eT )
>   {
>     char  a[ 16*8 ];
>     long  p = (long)(void*)a;
> -  int   i;
>
>     /* clear a[...] to set legal value for double access */
> -  for ( i = 0; i<  16*8; i++ )
> -    a[i] = 0;
> +  memset(a, 0, sizeof(a));
>
>     p = ( p + 0xF )&  ~0xF;
>     for ( i = 1; i<  16; i++ )
>
> Would it be ok?

makes sense to me, but id doesn't look you have compiled it, you are 
removing i that is used later :)

thanks,
riccardo