Re: linux/macros.h(new) and linux/list.h(mod) ...

Hua Zhong
2001-07-05T22:21:17Z

-> From David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> :
>
> huaz@cs.columbia.edu said:
> > Doesn't it add more overhead? I think using inline functions are
> > much better.
>
> Why should it add overhead? Even the most naïve compiler ought to generate
> the same code, surely? I must admit I haven't looked hard at the output -
> it didn't even occur to me that it might produce suboptimal code.

right, gcc -O2 does produce the same code (but -O does not).

>
> > Yes you have to define it for different types (char, short, int,
> > long, signed/unsigned).
>
> Unfortunately, this being C means that you can't call them all by the same
> name. If I have to use unsigned_long_max(x,y) I'd rather type it out myself
> :)

Oops, I must be sleeping at that time :-)

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