Re: [RFC PATCH v2 -tip 0/4] x86: signal handler improvement

[H. Peter Anvin]

Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
> > >
> > This is a gcc failure, and should be reported to the gcc people.
>
> Does this gcc failure mean unnecessary storing into stack?

Yes, it should be able to process this in a register, instead of storing 
to the stack and then merging later.

It's possible it's trying to do that to hide latency, but that's clearly 
a lose in this case.

I'd hate to obfuscate the code, and I'd *really* hate to obfuscate the 
code to work around gcc brokenness, and then not even bothering to tell 
the gcc folks.

	-hpa
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