Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:06:05 +0200 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: using gcc built-ins for bitops? |
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:00:22AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > and/or architectures.... is this worth doing? > > I guess it depends on the resulting code size and quality. Some extra > conversions would be needed for that.
ok I'll see if I can get some detailed info on that
> > For the implementation it would be nice to have the old-style > implementations in one header and the new-style ones in a separate header. > That would create a bit of an all-or-nothing situation, but that should be > OK?
Perhaps. It's not impossible that say gcc 3.5 will add a few more builtins even that then allow more functions to be converted, otoh that shouldn't be impossible to cope with. I'll have a look to see how it pans out.
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