Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.1 ffs problem, kernel 2.4.18

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 19:04:58 EST


On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> That said, we should probably be using __builtin_ffs
> instead. The compiler knows how to do bsfl plus the
> adjustment. Plus, it knows how to evaluate it at
> compile-time for constants.

When was __builtin_ffs introduced? I know it didn't use to exist, but
we've obviously bumped up the gcc requirements several times, so..

                Linus

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