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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Consolidation of asm/unaligned.h
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:33:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050317213333.C15653@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050317104744.4be7e550.davem@davemloft.net>; from davem@davemloft.net on Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:47:44AM -0800

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:47:44AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> 1) ARM is trying to be incredibly clever, and open codes the shifts
>    and ors.  I think it would be better if it used something similar
>    to the packed structure technique.

I agree with your sentiment, though I'd like to compare the produced
code to ensure that there isn't something unexpected somewhere.

Thanks Dave, this looks interesting.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-17 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-17 18:47 Consolidation of asm/unaligned.h David S. Miller
2005-03-17 21:33 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-17 21:51   ` David S. Miller
2005-03-17 21:57 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-17 22:03   ` David S. Miller
2005-03-18  0:20     ` Richard Henderson
2005-03-18  4:13       ` David S. Miller
2005-03-17 23:27 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-03-18  0:25 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-04  3:42 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-04  4:02   ` David S. Miller
2005-04-04  4:15     ` James Bottomley
2005-04-04  6:11       ` David S. Miller
2005-04-04 11:34       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-04-04 10:47   ` Ralf Baechle
2005-04-05 14:10     ` James Bottomley
2005-04-05 14:15       ` Ralf Baechle
2005-04-05 15:02       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-04-05 15:11         ` Ralf Baechle

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