From: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
To: Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>
Cc: LKML List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, jesper.nilsson@axis.com
Subject: Re: What's this __dummy in asm-cris/bitops.h?
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:56:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071220095656.GF10888@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47697761.1090702@anagramm.de>
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:56:17PM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while looking for some assembly out of order / optimization stuff
> for something else, I found some strange code in
> .../linux/include/asm-cris/bitops.h:22
>
> /*
> * Some hacks to defeat gcc over-optimizations..
> */
> struct __dummy { unsigned long a[100]; };
> #define ADDR (*(struct __dummy *) addr)
> #define CONST_ADDR (*(const struct __dummy *) addr)
>
> CONST_ADDR is never used in the kernel.
> Maybe some -cris people could have a look.
Hmm... This is very old code, it hasn't changed since 2001 and
it is not used anywhere.
I'll send a patch to remove it, thanks for noticing!
> Thanks,
> Clemens Koller
/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@axis.com
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