linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] math128, x86_64: Implement {mult,add}

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Message-ID: <1335285395.28150.204.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:36:35 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] math128, x86_64: Implement {mult,add}_u128 in
 64bit asm

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:34 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/24/2012 09:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Are you sure that gcc won't simply generate this code already if given
> "unsigned __int128"?

It might, but I've been told some GCC versions had issues, also lots of
archs fall back to libgcc functions.


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