That means a superfluous cast is removed and aliasing through a uint8_t
pointer is eliminated. NB: The C standard specifies that a unsigned char
pointer may alias while the C standard doesn't include such requirement
for uint8_t pointers.
Also simplified the loop since a modern C compiler can speed up (i.e.
auto-vectorize) it in a similar way. For example, GCC auto-vectorizes it
for Haswell using AVX registers while halving the number of instructions
in the generated code.
Fixes: 6006818cfb ("net: new checksum functions")
Fixes: e079655c41 ("net: fix build with gcc 4.4.7 and strict aliasing")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Georg Sauthoff <mail@gms.tf>
Reviewed-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
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