Re: 2.4.x: i386/x86_64 bitops clobberings

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Sun Oct 15 2006 - 06:27:55 EST


On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:56:55AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > ...
> > I have searched the archives for previous occurrences of this recurring
> > problem, and found another alternative which is said to work on all gcc
> > versions. So here's the patch for both x86 and x86_64. I checked that it
> > produces identical code as I obtain with the patch from 2.6. It also
> > fixes your testcase for gcc-2.95 to 4.1.1.
> >
> > Could you please give it a try ?
>
> Works fine here as well. Merging it would be welcome.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Jan

Thanks for your feedback Jan.
Unless someone quickly raises a problem or points a risk, I will merge it,
and will also put it in next -stable.

Regards,
Willy

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