Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:03:22 +0100 | From | antirez <> | Subject | Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code |
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:54:04AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > This patch isn't really necessary, because GCC will automatically > convert multiplications and divisions by powers of two to use shifts.
Sure, but since many << 2 already exists in the net kernel code I feel it's better to use just a format, and it seems more appropriate to write << 2, just to reflect what we want. Also some piece of kernel code may be used with compilers that does not optimize power of two.
antirez (CC me)
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