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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: RFC: booleans and the kernel
Date24 Jan 2002 14:05:01 -0800
Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020124165419.1859A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author:    "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> Don't you wish!
> 
> 	cmpl $0,8(%ebp)      <-------------- Compare against zero.

That's the fastest way in x86 to compare a memory variable against
zero.  andl %reg,%reg only works if the value is already in a
register.

	-hpa
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