Re: Use of C99 int types

[Dag Arne Osvik <da@osvik.no>]

Stephen Rothwell wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:55:39 +0200 Dag Arne Osvik <da@osvik.no> wrote:
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>>I've been working on a new DES implementation for Linux, and ran into
>>the problem of how to get access to C99 types like uint_fast32_t for
>>internal (not interface) use.  In my tests, key setup on Athlon 64 slows
>>down by 40% when using u32 instead of uint_fast32_t.
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>If you look in stdint.h you may find that uint_fast32_t is actually
>64 bits on Athlon 64 ... so does it help if you use u64?
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Yes, but wouldn't it be much better to avoid code like the following, 
which may also be wrong (in terms of speed)?

#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT  // or maybe CONFIG_X86_64?
  #define fast_u32 u64
#else
  #define fast_u32 u32
#endif