Re: [PATCH 06/31] perf, kvm: Support the intx/intx_cp modifiers inKVM arch perfmon emulation

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Wed Oct 03 2012 - 08:54:59 EST


On 10/03/2012 02:11 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > - eventsel & ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_INT);
>> > + eventsel & ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_INT,
>> > + !!(eventsel & HSW_INTX),
>> > + !!(eventsel & HSW_INTX_CHECKPOINTED));
>> > }
>> >
>>
>> Those !! are !necessary, since the formal argument is a bool.
>
> bool is 1 or 0, x & y with y > 1 is not 1 or 0.
> iirc assigning > 1 to bool is undefined
>
> So I think they are necessary.

Conversion to bool coerces the value to 0 or 1.

_Bool ret(int x) { return x & 0x10000; }
20: 81 e7 00 00 01 00 and $0x10000,%edi
26: 0f 95 c0 setne %al
29: c3 retq


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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