Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: [patch] my inode diff against 2.2.2-pre4 | Date | 17 Feb 1999 17:50:52 GMT |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990217170800.1637C-100000@laser.bogus>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> wrote: >I don't understand why `found = 1' is needed. The asm code generated is >the same (with a `movl $1, %edx' of difference) with both egcs and gcc.
Not with my version of gcc.
Think "stupid liveness analysis", and you'll see why it makes a difference for some compilers.
>The first hunk of the patch is a static declaration.
And is buggy - it starts complaining on UP. Try it and see.
Linus
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