[PATCH] search_one_table()

Per Persson (per.persson@gnosjo.pp.se)
Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:32:50 +0100


I found that gcc doesn't manage to do this rewrite itself. My micro-patch
saves a few bytes. Also the code becomes a little bit cleaner (IMHO).

Probably the same change could (and should) be made for the other
architectures too.

Per Persson
per.persson@gnosjo.pp.se

--- arch/i386/mm/extable.c.orig Mon Nov 12 00:13:52 2001
+++ arch/i386/mm/extable.c Tue Nov 13 17:39:42 2001
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
const struct exception_table_entry *mid;
long diff;

- mid = (last - first) / 2 + first;
+ mid = (last + first) / 2
diff = mid->insn - value;
if (diff == 0)
return mid->fixup;

-
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