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Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 04:50:45 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Faster generic_fls
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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David S. Miller wrote:

> I know you think GCC is a pile of dogshit, in many ways I do too, but I
> think it's just as important to point out the good parts where they
> exist.

  GCC is the strangest combination of utterly brilliant and brain-dead
stupid that I've ever seen... I've seen it do tail merges that took
my breath away, followed by this:

  mov <mem1>,eax
  mov eax,<mem2>
  mov <mem1>,eax        ; eax already contains mem1 you stupid compiler
  ret

------
 Chuck
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