[coreboot] rfc - gcc builtins and memset memcpy memmove memcmp

[Peter Stuge]

Marc Jones wrote:
> doesn't really explain why gcc doesn't do a rep stos or rep mov
> (which should hit the cache)/ That should be an easy optimization
> for gcc.

Except I don't think it's an optimization performance-wise. But if
you enable -Os then I would expect it to use rep stosb.


> It also doesn't address why coreboot has a functions when we could
> use gcc intrinsic that should be optimized for the architecture
> they are built for.

Good point! I guess we rolled our own to be less dependent on gcc. I
think it would be OK to use gcc's implementations though.


//Peter