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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to avoid a memset() optimization
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:21:20 +0000
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C H Forsyth wrote:
> so, in the case of memset applied to such a thing,
> are those accesses that `must really be performed'
> byte accesses, word accesses, quadword?

The indicated bytes must all end up with 0 values,
which was the important thing anyway for this application.
The width of actual access depends on the implementation.