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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre6: Use of abs()
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:22:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001101102216.A18206@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010281629.e9SGTah07672@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> <39FD7F2C.9A3F3976@evision-ventures.com> <20001030081938.K6207@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <39FD9E6A.AD10E699@evision-ventures.com> <20001101094619.A15283@trampoline.thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001101094619.A15283@trampoline.thunk.org>

On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 09:46:19AM -0500, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> What versions of gcc produce the built-in functions?

2.95 and previous.  In 2.96 somewhere we fixed a bug that
automatically prototypes these builtin functions for you;
ie with current code you get an undeclared function warning.

> And does it do so for *all* platforms?  (i.e., PPC, Alpha,
> IA64, etc., etc., etc.)

Yes.  The thing about abs, though, is that it's "int abs(int)"
which does naughty things with longs on 64-bit targets.  You're
much better off writing (x < 0 ? -x : x) directly.


r~
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-01 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-28 16:29 2.4.0-test10-pre6: Use of abs() Horst von Brand
2000-10-30 14:01 ` Martin Dalecki
2000-10-30 13:19   ` Jakub Jelinek
2000-10-30 16:14     ` Martin Dalecki
2000-11-01 14:46       ` tytso
2000-11-01 18:22         ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2000-11-02 12:14           ` Martin Dalecki
2000-11-02 19:37             ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-02  3:02         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o

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