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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] time: allow gcc to fold constants when using
 msecs_to_jiffies
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>,
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        "H. Peter Alvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
        Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:33:43 -0700
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On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 06:26 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Apr 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Try it and look at the generated .lst files with and
> > without the patch I sent.
[]
> from all that I understood it should
> be doable both as macro and inline.

I think it _should_ be doable too but I also think
the only reason gcc doesn't optimize the inline
is because gcc's optimizer isn't good enough yet.


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