[Bug tree-optimization/34027] [4.3 regression] -Os code size nearly doubled

["rguenther at suse dot de" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #3 from rguenther at suse dot de  2007-11-09 12:20 -------
Subject: Re:  [4.3 regression] -Os code size
 nearly doubled

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, jakub at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> ------- Comment #2 from jakub at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-11-09 12:15 -------
> I think whether the modulus will be bigger or smaller is terribly hard to
> estimate.  Really, if you file -Os regressions, you should at least compile the
> whole kernel and compare whether the resulting sizes, rather than cherry
> picking one example.  E.g. on ppc64 computing modulus rather than doing the
> loop
> is definitely much shorter.
> IMHO if the kernel wants to avoid using modulus, it should just say so
> unsigned long long foobar(unsigned long long ns)
> {
>   while(ns >= 1000000000L) {
>     ns -= 1000000000L;
>     asm ("" : "=r" (ns) : "0" (ns));
>   }
>   return ns;
> }
> will do that just fine.

Yes, just that at the moment we don't procude the modulus but use
a division, a multiplication and a subtraction.

Richard.


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