Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:03:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x |
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On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Hmm. I also have some patches (code generation and C++ bug fixes, > better ix86 code for 64-bit arithmetic, __builtin_constant_p in inline > functions).
Please, please, please..
The "__builtin_constant_p()" in inline functions would have some things about 20 times easier to optimize for. Right now it's a very useful feature, but it is rather nasty syntactically because you have to hide it inside these macros that easily get to be fairly convoluted..
Linus
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