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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add lz4 compressor module
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com> wrote:
>>> +#define HTYPE const u8*
>>> +
>>> +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
>>> +#define LZ4_NBCOMMONBYTES(val) (__builtin_clz(val) >> 3)
>>> +#else
>>> +#define LZ4_NBCOMMONBYTES(val) (__builtin_ctz(val) >> 3)
>>> +#endif
>>
>>It seems at least m68k and sparc don't have the __builtin_clz() functions:
>>
>>m68k-allmodconfig (http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8572593/):
>>
>>ERROR: "__clzsi2" [lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.ko] undefined!
>>ERROR: "__clzsi2" [lib/lz4/lz4_compress.ko] undefined!
>
> gcc seems to define __builtin_clz as __clzsi2 in some architecture.
> But, kernel doesn't link libgcc.a.
> If kernel should use gcc's built-in function without libgcc.a,
> do we need to port __clzsi2 to 'arch/*/lib/*'?

That's another option.

So far no one used __builtin_c[lt]z in generic code. We always used
__fls and __ffs.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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