INTERNAL_SYSCALL and function calls in arguments

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Sat Apr 10 22:04:00 GMT 2004


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> Since the change only introduces temporary variables which the compiler
>> would create internally anyway, the compiler is perfectly capable to
>> optimize them away, and in all cases except sched_setaffinity the
>> generated code is virtually identical.
>
> I haven't asked about theoretical results.  You must assume I'm stupid
> and don't know that this is possible.  What are the concrete results?

As I wrote above: virtually identical.  In some cases even better.

Andreas.

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