Re: [PATCH v7 0/1] refs.c: SSE4.2 optimizations for check_refname_component

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Am 6/10/2014 1:05, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
>>
>>> Since Junio has picked up the first patch from previous versions of
>>> this series, I'm just going to send the second (SSE) one.  I decided
>>> not to s/NO_SSE42/!HAVE_SSE42/ because it looks like git mostly uses
>>> the former convention (for instance, that's what GIT_PARSE_WITH
>>> generates).
>>
>> Yeah but NO_FROTZ is used only when FROTZ is something everybody is
>> expected to have (e.g. it's in posix, people ought to have it, but
>> we do support those who don't), isn't it?  For a very arch specific
>> stuff like sse42, I'd feel better to make it purely opt-in by
>> forcing people to explicitly say HAVE_SSE42 to enable it.
> 
> Just FYI: I am getting
> 
> compat/cpuid.h:8:12: error: 'processor_supports_sse42' defined but
> not used [-Werror=unused-function]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> 
> while building 'pu'; I'll have to rebuild 'pu' without this patch
> before I can push the day's result out.

And I get this when I compile on Windows with msysgit:

    CC abspath.o
In file included from git-compat-util.h:694,
                 from cache.h:4,
                 from abspath.c:1:
compat/cpuid.h: In function 'processor_supports_sse42':
compat/cpuid.h:11: warning: implicit declaration of function '__cpuid'
abspath.c: At top level:
compat/cpuid.h:8: warning: 'processor_supports_sse42' defined but not used
abspath.c: In function 'processor_supports_sse42':
compat/cpuid.h:11: warning: 'eax' is used uninitialized in this function
compat/cpuid.h:11: warning: 'ebx' is used uninitialized in this function
compat/cpuid.h:11: warning: 'ecx' is used uninitialized in this function
compat/cpuid.h:11: warning: 'edx' is used uninitialized in this function

Perhaps our gcc is too old?

-- Hannes