From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266118AbUBQLow (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:44:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266129AbUBQLow (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:44:52 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:48854 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266118AbUBQLou (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:44:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:39:21 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: "Amit S. Kale" Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, akale@users.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, jim.houston@ccur.com, trini@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: hweight64 Message-Id: <20040218023921.60d8a037.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200402171655.44006.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> References: <20040217103451.GA440@elf.ucw.cz> <200402171655.44006.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:55:43 +0530 "Amit S. Kale" wrote: > Hi Pavel and kgdb gurus, > > I inherited this change from x86_64 patch. Probably it was required on x86_64. > I can't think of any reason why it is necessary. > > Unless someone finds a problem with this patch, I am going to apply it. You can just remove it. It's not needed. kgdb does not even use hweight* I checked some time ago with Jim Houston (from which it originated) and he said it was a merging error leaking from some Concurrent internal tree. -Andi