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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] some questions about  rte_memcpy
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:39:11AM +0800, Linhaifeng wrote:
> Why call memcpy when n is constant variable?

One theory. Many DPDK functions crash if they are called before rte_eal_init() 
is called. So perhaps this could be a cause, since that won't have been called 
when working on a constant?

Matthew.