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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 00:31:19 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 4/21] fix ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
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David Lang wrote:
> rather then debating how to convince gcc how to not optimize them away and
> messing up the timing we should be talking about how to eliminate such
> loops in the first place.

You misunderstand.  We _do_ want gcc to optimize away empty loops.

-- Jamie
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