Lazy construction of libcalls
Richard Sandiford
richard@codesourcery.com
Fri Aug 24 13:44:00 GMT 2007
Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:
> While comparing the tables produced by new and old code, I noticed that
> "ffs" for SI used to be called "ffssi3" but now it is "ffs".
> I believe it was inteded to be called ffs because of:
> optab_handler (ffs_optab, int_mode)->libfunc = init_one_libfunc ("ffs");
> that however later get overwriten by initialization code.
Actually, this was deliberate. All libgccs have word and doubleword
ffs functions, but not all C libraries have "ffs". So we wanted the
libgcc versions to take precedence over the C library fallback. See:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-04/msg01165.html
for details.
Richard
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