On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:47:13PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > You'll probably get even better code if you change the above to:
> > >
> > > if (size != 0 && n > ULONG_MAX / size)
> > >
> > > Reason being that size is virtually always a constant so the compiler
> > > can evaluate the division at compile-time.
>
> On 8/21/05, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I doubt this would make any difference.
> >
> > And besides, except in some rare cases, the second argument is a
> > sizeof(foo) whose size is already known at compile time.
>
> Yes, that's my point. The second argument (size) is virtually always
> sizeof() whereas the first one (n) is sometimes a variable. GCC
> currently does not optimize away the division when n is not a
> constant.
>
> Looking at 2.6.13-rc6-mm1, we have roughly 15 callers with the first
> parameter being a variable. The compiler would be able to get rid of
> one comparison and division instruction for each of these so looks
> like we could shave off some more bytes...
With gcc 4.0.1:
text data bss dec hex filename
25675334 5851630 1819976 33346940 1fcd57c vmlinux-my-patch
25675366 5851630 1819976 33346972 1fcd59c vmlinux-your-patch
INT_MAX -> ULONG_MAX is correct, even though it doesn't seem to make a
difference with today's gcc.
Trying to change the code in a way that gcc will produce better code
doesn't seem to be worth it (except in extreme hot paths).
> Pekka
cu
Adrian
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