RE: [RFC] tools/nolibc: replace duplicated -ENOSYS return with single -ENOSYS return

[David Laight]

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> We also need this style of checking for the delta logic in __atoi_add(). have
> randomly tried different clang and gcc versions, seems all of them work
> correctly, but the compiling speed is not that good if we want to support the
> worst cases like "((0x900000 + 0x0f0000) + 5)", the shorter one
> "((0x900000+0x0f0000)+5)" is used by ARM+OABI (not supported by nolibc
> currently), therefore, we can strip some tailing branches but it is either not
> that fast, of course, the other architectures/variants can use faster
> __atoi_add() versions with less branches and without hex detection, comparison
> and calculating.

If there are only a few prefix offsets then the code can be optimised
to explicitly detect them - rather than decoding arbitrary hex values.
After all it only needs to decode the values that actually appear.

The code also needs a compile-time assert that the result
is constant (__buitin_constant_p() will do the check.
But you can't use _Static_assert() to report the error
because that requires an 'integer constant expression'.

	David

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