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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:25:43 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multiple & vs. && and | vs. || bugs in 2.4.20
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Hi,

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> > -	if (!urb->status & !acm->throttle)  {
> > +	if (!urb->status && !acm->throttle)  {
> 
> [...]
> 
> Observe the extra 'jne' and the fact that the value of 'throttle'
> element cannot be loaded until after the conditional jump.   Not even
> out of order execution can arrange that.

But speculative execution can arrange that (providing the cpu predicted 
the jump target correctly).

> To summarize, I'd probably not be amused if you would change any of my
> code which takes advantage of such programming finess.

If that was really intentional, I would assume to see something like this:

	if (!(urb->status | acm->throttle)) {

bye, Roman

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