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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:40:00 -0000
From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>
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Subject: RFA: use xcalloc for zalloc.
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This patch speeds up simulators that use the sim/common infrastructure
to allocate their memory.

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regression tested for m32r-elf with check-gcc and check-gdb on gcc11 in
gcc svn & sourceware cvs from 20090317.
A simple test shows that speed for allocating large memory areas is indeed
improved on gcc11:
amylaar@gcc11:~/20090317-z$ uname -a
Linux gcc11 2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 6 05:50:26 UTC 2008 x86_6=
4 GNU/Linux
amylaar@gcc11:~/20090317/bld-m32r/gcc/testsuite/gcc$ time ~/20090317/bld-m3=
2r/sim/m32r/run  --memory-region 0,0x80000000  big.x

real    0m3.180s
user    0m1.488s
sys     0m1.692s
amylaar@gcc11:~/20090317/bld-m32r/gcc/testsuite/gcc$ time ~/20090317-z/bld-=
m32r/sim/m32r/run  --memory-region 0,0x80000000  big.x

real    0m0.069s
user    0m0.060s
sys     0m0.012s

2007-04-30  J"orn Rennecke  <joern.rennecke@arc.com>

	Speed up simulator startup:
	* sim-utils.c (zalloc): Use xcalloc.

Index: sim/common/sim-utils.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/sim/common/sim-utils.c,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -u -r1.9 sim-utils.c
--- sim/common/sim-utils.c	14 Jan 2009 10:53:06 -0000	1.9
+++ sim/common/sim-utils.c	18 Mar 2009 18:42:18 -0000
@@ -52,15 +52,13 @@ along with this program.  If not, see <h
    Set by sim_resume.  */
 struct sim_state *current_state;
=20
-/* Allocate zero filled memory with xmalloc - xmalloc aborts of the
+/* Allocate zero filled memory with xcalloc - xcalloc aborts if the
    allocation fails.  */
=20
 void *
 zalloc (unsigned long size)
 {
-  void *memory =3D (void *) xmalloc (size);
-  memset (memory, 0, size);
-  return memory;
+  return xcalloc (1, size);
 }
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 void

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