[petsc-dev] _intel_fast_{memcpy,memset} configure tests?

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Jed Brown wrote:

> We are testing for these now, but never call them since
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/9b5000abb3a60be67df1194dc2bfaf8b24ce60ad
> 
> I think we should remove those tests.  I wonder how many more configure
> tests can be removed because their result is unused.

I can push this one..

Satish

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$ git diff config/PETSc/Configure.py config/PETSc/utilities/missing.py |cat
diff --git a/config/PETSc/Configure.py b/config/PETSc/Configure.py
index 6568904..d0f83a2 100644
--- a/config/PETSc/Configure.py
+++ b/config/PETSc/Configure.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class Configure(config.base.Configure):
                  'readlink', 'realpath',  'sigaction', 'signal', 'sigset', 'usleep', 'sleep', '_sleep', 'socket',
                  'times', 'gethostbyname', 'uname','snprintf','_snprintf','lseek','_lseek','time','fork','stricmp',
                  'strcasecmp', 'bzero', 'dlopen', 'dlsym', 'dlclose', 'dlerror','get_nprocs','sysctlbyname',
-                 '_intel_fast_memcpy','_intel_fast_memset']
+                 ]
     libraries1 = [(['socket', 'nsl'], 'socket'), (['fpe'], 'handle_sigfpes')]
     self.headers.headers.extend(headersC)
     self.functions.functions.extend(functions)
diff --git a/config/PETSc/utilities/missing.py b/config/PETSc/utilities/missing.py
index b02b3a7..29a2c72 100644
--- a/config/PETSc/utilities/missing.py
+++ b/config/PETSc/utilities/missing.py
@@ -138,21 +138,6 @@ if (drand48_ptr() > 0.5) return 1;
       self.popLanguage()
     return
 
-  def configureMissingIntelFastPrototypes(self):
-    if self.functions.haveFunction('_intel_fast_memcpy'):
-      self.addPrototype('#include <stddef.h> \nvoid *_intel_fast_memcpy(void *,const void *,size_t);', 'C')
-      if hasattr(self.compilers, 'CXX'):
-        self.pushLanguage('C++')
-        self.addPrototype('#include <stddef.h> \nvoid *_intel_fast_memcpy(void *,const void *,size_t);', 'extern C')
-        self.popLanguage()
-    if self.functions.haveFunction('_intel_fast_memset'):
-      self.addPrototype('#include <stddef.h> \nvoid *_intel_fast_memset(void *, int, size_t);', 'C')
-      if hasattr(self.compilers, 'CXX'):
-        self.pushLanguage('C++')
-        self.addPrototype('#include <stddef.h> \nvoid *_intel_fast_memset(void *, int, size_t);', 'extern C')
-        self.popLanguage()
-    return
-
   def configure(self):
     self.executeTest(self.configureMissingDefines)
     self.executeTest(self.configureMissingUtypeTypedefs)
@@ -160,5 +145,4 @@ if (drand48_ptr() > 0.5) return 1;
     self.executeTest(self.configureMissingSignals)
     self.executeTest(self.configureMissingGetdomainnamePrototype)
     self.executeTest(self.configureMissingSrandPrototype)
-    self.executeTest(self.configureMissingIntelFastPrototypes)
     return