Prev: [PATCH] arch/tile: rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
From: Mike Frysinger on 13 Aug 2010 21:10
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 20:32, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> Mike, thanks for the pointer to the hweight issue.  Since we are using
> __builtin_popcount() and the compiler can do constant propagation, etc.,
> with it at compile-time, this is less critical, but it seems like the
> easiest way to get the definitions of the HWEIGHT macros.

interesting ... i wasnt aware of the popcount builtin. the Blackfin
ISA has a "ONES" insn which does this. guess we should implement the
popcount builtin too.
-mike
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