On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:55:57PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> long *mid(long *a, long *b)
> {
> return ((a - b) / 2 + a);
> }
... is not actually a middle (you'd want b-a, not a-b there), but anyway
> It gave :
> mid:
> movq %rdi, %rdx
> subq %rsi, %rdx
> sarq $3, %rdx
> movq %rdx, %rax
> shrq $63, %rax
> addq %rdx, %rax
> sarq %rax
> leaq (%rdi,%rax,8), %rax
> ret
>
> while
>
> long *mid(long *a, long *b)
> {
> return ((a - b) / 2u + a);
> }
... undefined behaviour if a < b
> and while :
>
> long *mid(long *a, long *b)
> {
> return (((unsigned long)(a - b)) / 2 + a);
> }
undefined behaviour, again.
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