Re: Miscellaneous testsuitsuite failures under hpux 10.20

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

> cc: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
> Reply-To: law@cygnus.com
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:44:21 -0600
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
> 
> 
>   In message <200006282308.QAA02706@localhost.cygnus.com>you write:
>   > > about the portability of ffs which you have used in your patch.  The
>   > 
>   > That's one of the reasons the patch is not committed.  Probably it
>   > should use something like exact_log2, or supply its own ffs
>   > equivalent.
> Right.  We've got routines to compute log2, and presumably that's all we
> really want/need, right?

Unfortunately, what this particular code needs is exactly ffs.  That's
no problem, though, it just means we should re-implement it, perhaps
in libiberty.  [As a practical matter, nearly every platform where gcc
is used already has ffs().]  If I ever got time I could do this.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>