Constant folding does not work for the swabXX() byte swapping functions,
and the C versions optimize poorly.
Attempting to initialize a global variable to swab16(0x1234) or put
something like "case swab32(42):" in a switch statement will not compile.
It can work, swab.h just isn't doing it correctly. This patch fixes that.
Contrary to the comment in asm-i386/byteorder.h, gcc does not recognize the
"C" version of swab16 and turn it into efficient code. gcc can do this,
just not with the current code. The simple function:
u16 foo(u16 x) { return swab16(x); }
Would compile to:
movzwl %ax, %eax
movl %eax, %edx
shrl $8, %eax
sall $8, %edx
orl %eax, %edx
With this patch, it will compile to:
rolw $8, %ax
I also attempted to document the maze different macros/inline functions
that are used to create the final product.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Trent Piepho