[PATCH] Optimize x*x*x*x*x*x using 3 multiplications.

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Wed Jul 30 04:53:00 GMT 2003


Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
| > Oh wait a minute, if they are internal to GCC why can't we just
| > overload them (therefore dropping the "C" linkage requirement) and
| > call them __builtin_pow? 
| 
| I'm fairly certain that DEF_BUILTIN will not understand overloaded names.

Not that I wanted it to happen, but I'm certain that DEF_BUILTIN doesn't
care.  It cares however about ENUM and TYPE.  But again, it is not
something important for me.

-- Gaby



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