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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:33:33 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Consolidation of asm/unaligned.h
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Sender: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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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.

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