[Bug gcov-profile/55734] [4.8 Regression] gcov-io.c uses builtins not available in non-GCC compilers

[tejohnson at google dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55734

--- Comment #3 from Teresa Johnson <tejohnson at google dot com> 2012-12-18 15:49:03 UTC ---
In that thread, I had asked:

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If you prefer, I can simply inline the popcount/clz functionality into
gcov-io.c directly (or at least when not using recent versions of
GCC). But that in fact would be duplicating the code, when I thought
Aldy's solution was trying to avoid that by providing the more general
interfaces.

Teresa
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but didn't get a response. Richard, is that your preferred route for
fixing this issue?

Thanks,
Teresa

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:45 AM, aldyh at gcc dot gnu.org
<gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
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> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55734
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> --- Comment #2 from Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-12-18 15:45:17 UTC ---
> I have a proposed patch here:
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> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-12/msg00766.html
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> ...which was deemed not sexy at all.  So perhaps Richard or someone else can
> suggest another route?
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