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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 30 May 2020 12:20:36 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] bitops: Introduce the the for_each_set_clump macro
To:     Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@gmail.com>
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        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
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On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:45 AM Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 3:49 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:

...

> I am still investigating more on this. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

As far as I understand the start pointers are implementations of abs()
macro followed by min()/max().
I think in the latter case it's actually something which might help here.

Sorry, right now I have no time to dive deeper.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko