From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758420AbYDNMaQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:30:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752592AbYDNMaE (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:30:04 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:48749 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752267AbYDNMaE (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:30:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:57 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Alexander van Heukelum Cc: Andi Kleen , Alexander van Heukelum , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: always_inline wrapper for x86's test_bit Message-ID: <20080414123457.GC18662@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20080413112308.GA23426@mailshack.com> <87hce5wv2h.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <1208109831.1489.1247631595@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20080413181642.GA8641@one.firstfloor.org> <1208175845.22460.1247749229@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1208175845.22460.1247749229@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Checked with a stock 3.2.3 form gcc.gnu.org (compiled using debian's > gcc-2.95). It gets it right: places that should get the C version get > the C version and places that should get the inline-assembly version > get the inline-assembly version. No funny things at all. Great. Thanks for testing. Perhaps the problem was limited to 2.9x only. > B.T.W., debian and ubuntu don't provide gcc-3.2 packages. Is there a > good reason why gcc-3.2.3 (5 years old in a week) should still be > supported? The compiler version is normally only moved up when there is some bug in an older version that cannot be reasonably be worked around. So far 3.2 didn't have anything like this, at least not on x86 (on some other architectures there are problems with older toolkits) -Andi