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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
Cc: Rich Baum <richbaum@acm.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix compile warnings in 2.4.15pre9
Date: 22 Nov 2001 19:03:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1006473785.1336.6.camel@icbm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011122165454.P1308@lynx.no>
In-Reply-To: <132A4694022@coral.indstate.edu>  <20011122165454.P1308@lynx.no>

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 18:54, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> How about something like (not real patches, but you get the idea:
> 
> @@ -4691,6 +4691,7 @@
>  	OUTL_DSP (SCRIPTA_BA (np, clrack));
> +out_stuck:
>  	return;
> -out_stuck:
>  }
>  
> @@ -5226,6 +5227,7 @@
>  
> +fail:
>  	return;
> -fail:
>  }

Yes, much better.  Besides looking better, gcc _may_ generate different
code (I don't know how smart it is in this case) that has these "fall
throughs" and that would mean (a) less code and (b) less jumps -- always
a win.

	Robert Love



      reply	other threads:[~2001-11-23  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-22 22:45 [PATCH] fix compile warnings in 2.4.15pre9 Rich Baum
2001-11-22 23:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-23  0:03   ` Robert Love [this message]

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