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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] bitops: compile time optimization for
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:42:51 -0800
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On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:15:57 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 07:08 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:39:51 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there an official lowest GCC version that Linux supports?
> > 
> > Documentation/Changes says gcc-3.2.
> 
> Anyway, its not like that macro I used isn't straight forward. Not much
> a builtin can do better.
> 
> The only benefit the builtin has is possibly use machine popcnt
> instructions but we already deal with that in the kernel.

We didn't deal with it on every architecture, which is something which
the compiler extension takes care of.

In fact I can't find anywhere where we dealt with it on x86.