Re: [RFC][PATCH] Faster generic_fls

Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Fri, 2 May 2003 04:50:45 -0400


David S. Miller wrote:

> I know you think GCC is a pile of dogshit, in many ways I do too, but I
> think it's just as important to point out the good parts where they
> exist.

GCC is the strangest combination of utterly brilliant and brain-dead
stupid that I've ever seen... I've seen it do tail merges that took
my breath away, followed by this:

mov <mem1>,eax
mov eax,<mem2>
mov <mem1>,eax ; eax already contains mem1 you stupid compiler
ret

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Chuck
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