Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/arch/i386/i386

To: lennart%augustsson.net@localhost
Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/arch/i386/i386
From: Simon Burge <simonb%wasabisystems.com@localhost>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:42:24 +1000

Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> Why do we have code with ({}) at all?  I thought we were avoiding gccisms.

I think there were cases where the ({}) way produced instruction
sequences that were one instruction shorter than the "static inline"
method on powerpc.  Not much of a reason - I'd agree that we should
remove any remaining cases.

Simon.
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References:
- Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/arch/i386/i386
  - From: Lennart Augustsson

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