And if you use -O2 as gcc option, you may find it does nothing. They
are using the same assemble language.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Li, Zhen-Hua <lizhenhua....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Infact, your patch does remove an orl operation, but add a new "move"
> operation.
>
> You can test such two functions:
> int func1(int rm1, int rm2){
> int i = 0;
> i |= rm1;
> i |= rm2;
> }
>
> and
>
> int func(int rm1, int rm2){
> int i;
> i = rm1;
> i |= rm2;
> }
>
> Use gcc to compile them to assemble with "-S" operation, and you will find it.
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Santosh Shilimkar
> <santosh.shilim...@ti.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 04 December 2012 07:25 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Santosh Shilimkar
>>> <santosh.shilim...@ti.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 04 December 2012 04:56 PM, Cong Ding wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the initialization of variable ret is unnecessary, we can remove it
>>>>> while
>>>>> save
>>>>> one time "or" operation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <ding...@gmail.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks ok.
>>>> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar<santosh.shilim...@ti.com>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch, but I don't think it matters enough to apply it.
>>> The existing code isn't wrong.
>>>
>> The patch was removing an additional operation and hence i didn't
>> contest it. I agree with your comment though.
>>
>> Regards
>> Santosh
>>
>>
>>
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