work around gcc 4.8's generation of self-referential mem* functions at -O3
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 87207b6..1d73472 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
 
 CFLAGS_C99FSE=
 CFLAGS_AUTO=
+CFLAGS_MEMOPS=
 LDFLAGS_AUTO=
 OPTIMIZE_GLOBS=
 prefix=/usr/local/musl
@@ -236,6 +237,14 @@
 || { test "$ARCH" = i386 && tryflag CFLAGS_C99FSE -ffloat-store ; }
 tryflag CFLAGS_C99FSE -frounding-math
 
+#
+# Check for options that may be needed to prevent the compiler from
+# generating self-referential versions of memcpy,, memmove, memcmp,
+# and memset. Really, we should add a check to determine if this
+# option is sufficient, and if not, add a macro to cripple these
+# functions with volatile...
+#
+tryflag CFLAGS_MEMOPS -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns
 
 #
 # If debugging is explicitly enabled, don't auto-enable optimizations
@@ -403,6 +412,7 @@
 CC = $CC
 CFLAGS= $CFLAGS_AUTO $CFLAGS
 CFLAGS_C99FSE = $CFLAGS_C99FSE
+CFLAGS_MEMOPS = $CFLAGS_MEMOPS
 CPPFLAGS = $CPPFLAGS
 LDFLAGS = $LDFLAGS_AUTO $LDFLAGS
 CROSS_COMPILE = $CROSS_COMPILE