https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32667
Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bugdal at aerifal dot cx --- Comment #24 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> --- If the copy is such that gcc is happy to emit an external call to memcpy for it, there is no significant size or performance cost to emitting a branch checking for equality before making the call, and performing this branch would greatly optimize the (maybe rare in the caller, maybe not) case of self-assignment! On the other hand, expecting the libc memcpy to make this check greatly pessimizes every reasonable small use of memcpy with a gratuitous branch for what is undefined behavior and should never appear in any valid program. Fix it on the compiler side please.