Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... and this be part of _find_next_bit? Can find_next_bit not be simply
> 'return _find_next_bit(addr, size, offset, 1);', and similarly for
> find_next_zero_bit? Btw., passing true and false for the boolean
> parameter may be a little clearer.

Looking at the generated code, it would be better to replace the boolean
parameter with 0ul or ~0ul and XOR with it.  The same number of registers,
and saves a conditional branch.

(I was hoping GCC would figure that trick out, but it didn't.)
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