* Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <[email protected]> [2019-07-08 11:38:58]:
> > > > At runtime, Are we avoiding a function call? > > However I think we are avoiding a branch instead of a conditional, which may > > be beneficial. > > If you're assuming the compiler doesn't already optimize that (no idea > whether gcc really does that). > > @Markus: could you check what gcc is actually generating out of both the > old and your new version ? > > I had already tried looking at the object files both on X86 and PowerPc and in both cases (with and without patch) the generated code differs. > --mtx > > -- > Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > Free software and Linux embedded engineering > [email protected] -- +49-151-27565287 > -- Thanks and Regards Srikar Dronamraju
