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From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 09:08:05PM +0700, Alviro Iskandar Setiawan wrote:
> The first instruction could be:
> 
>    movl %esi, %eax
> 
> That's smaller. Also, the second argument of memset() is an int
> anyway, so there is no need to have a full 64-bit copy of %rsi in
> %rax.

Agree, noted.

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Ammar Faizi