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Re: Two small patches

Gabriel Dos_Reis <Gabriel.Dos_Reis@sophia.inria.fr> writes:

> Yes, I considered that alternative but prefered to rely on the
> builtins.  Could you elaborate on why the builtins aren't acceptable?

I don't think they are available everywhere.  They exist on platforms
which has instructions to implement them in hardware (ix86, m68k) but
not on machines where they have to be implemented in software.

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