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Re: [PATCH] Fix PR 13987, compile time slow down on
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: aj at suse dot de (Andreas Jaeger)
- Cc: pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu (Andrew Pinski), gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, ian at wasabisystems dot com, segher at kernel dot crashing dot org
- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 15:26:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix PR 13987, compile time slow down on
> Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> writes:
>
> > I decided to rename the configure option and make it default to use long =
> instead of long long.
> > I also moved the code to decide which type to use into hwint.h so other
> > files can use it also if they want. Also since ia64-hpux was mentioned
> > as one of the targets where long long was more effiecent I turned it on
> > for that host.
> > +#
> > +# host_efficient_long_long Set to no normally; to no if long long are
> > +# not as effiecient as long integers
>
> On most 64-bit systems long and long long are the same, this includes
> ia64-hpux. So, why is that setting usefull for ia64-hpux but not for
> ia64-linux? Should it be set for all 64-bit hosts - or is this not
> needed if long =3D long long?
It is only needed when long != long long. Sorry for not making that clear.
And on ia64-hpux, long != long long so that is the only reason why it is
needed there. I think ia64-windows and x86_64-windows or what ever the targets
are long != long long also. There might be other 64bit targets too.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski