Re: [PATCH 0/8] i386: bitops: Cleanup, sanitize, optimize

2007-07-30 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Denis, On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > Hi Satyam, > > On Monday 23 July 2007 17:05, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > There was a lot of bogus stuff that include/asm-i386/bitops.h was doing, > > that was unnecessary and not required for the correctness of those APIs. > > All that superfl

Re: [PATCH 0/8] i386: bitops: Cleanup, sanitize, optimize

2007-07-30 Thread Denis Vlasenko
Hi Satyam, On Monday 23 July 2007 17:05, Satyam Sharma wrote: > There was a lot of bogus stuff that include/asm-i386/bitops.h was doing, > that was unnecessary and not required for the correctness of those APIs. > All that superfluous stuff was also unnecessarily disallowing compiler > optimizatio

[PATCH 0/8] i386: bitops: Cleanup, sanitize, optimize

2007-07-23 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, There was a lot of bogus stuff that include/asm-i386/bitops.h was doing, that was unnecessary and not required for the correctness of those APIs. All that superfluous stuff was also unnecessarily disallowing compiler optimization possibilities, and making gcc generate code that wasn't as beaut