Why set zero in zero.c rather than use xor_n

[Niels Möller]

Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr> writes:

> Supposedly, for small sizes, mpn_zero can have a smaller overhead than
> memset, since it has more alignment information. But I don't think
> I've ever used mpn_zero...

I think recent gcc propagates alignment info down the callgraph. So
maybe it could produce a call to a memset entry point which can assume
sizeof(mp_limb_t) alignment? But then we're getting into magic in the
compiler/libc boundary.

We also have a few calls MPN_FILL (p, n, GMP_NUMB_MAX). These are
convertible to memset only if we have no nail bits.

Regards,
/Niels

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