Re: [PATCH -mm] kstrtox: delete division from inner parsing loop

From: Dmitry Antipov

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 07:14:16 EST


On 7/3/26 1:25 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

Overflow conditions can be checked on the fly resulting in at most
2 very predictable branches and zero division instructions:

_parse_integer_limit:
...
mov rax, rdx
mul rsi
seto bl
add rax, rcx
mov rdx, rax
setb al

Trust my word, there is a huge world beyond x86.

Dmitry