Re: [PATCH 5/14] i386 / Use early clobber to eliminate rotate indesc

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 08:57:28 EST


On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 17:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> At least i386 and x86-64 gcc should recognize
>
> ((foo << x) + (foo >> (32-x)))
>
> ... as a 32-bit rotate

Only for 1 <= x <= 31. For the x = 0 case the code posted is undefined
and at least in some cases gcc will do "interesting" things as a result
such as treating >> 32 as >> 0.

Alan

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