Re: using gcc built-ins for bitops?

[Arjan van de Ven]

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.

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

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