> The bottom line: At a cost of at most three unpredictable branches > (whether to clear the bytes in the last word with indices congruent > to 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4), then the code can reduce the risk from something > small but positive, to zero. This is very inexpensive insurance.
> John Reiser, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even if you're right, the change isn't free. You've simply presented evidence of one non-zero benefit of it. You've given no ability to assess the size of this benefit and no way to figure if it exceeds the cost. There is also a non-zero *security* cost to this change. DS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
