2010/6/15 Edgar Toernig <[email protected]> > pouly amaury wrote: > > > > for (x = (unsigned)(FREQ>>22); x; x--) > > asm volatile("":::"memory"); > > > > Clobbering memory is likely to prevent gcc from optimizing the loop away. > > But it will break with loop-unrolling (i.e. -O3). x times nothing > is nothing ;-) You *have* to use a nop-instruction. > > And the cast is bogus - only silences the compiler without fixing > the problem. > > Ciao, ET. >
Tell me if I'm wrong but the compiler can hardly unroll a loop with a non-constant size. As FREQ is a define for cpu_frequency which has external linkage. The cast was there before, I didn't modify it. But anyway, rewriting it in assembly is cleary the safe way :)
