Re: [PATCH] 498+ days uptime

Jamie Lokier (jamie@imbolc.ucc.ie)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:17:19 +0100


On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 06:31:57AM -0500, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Actually, try compiling that and shriek in horror...
>
> gcc handles the 'a++' case ok, but 'a+=b' takes about 12 instructions.

That's why I proposed an increment_counter macro which expands to an
`asm' statement.

-- Jamie

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