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Re: [PATCH v2 9/10] Tilera (and Linux asm-generic) support for glibc

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> wrote:
> (The 16-bit swap would be done via __builtin_bswap32(x)>> Â16.)
> If it's no worse for any platform, and better for some, that's
> probably sufficient reason to make the change in glibc to use it.

It does produce worse code if the target does not implement the
patterns because the function is not inlined by default.  It produces
a call to bswapsi and bswapdi.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
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