Re: [PATCH 2/5] bitops: compile time optimization forhweight_long(CONSTANT)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 14:57 +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 12.2.2010 20:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 02/12/2010 09:47 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >>
> >> However, this is generic code and for the above to work we have to
> >> enforce x86-specific CFLAGS for it. What is the preferred way to do
> >> that?
> >>
> > 
> > That's a question for Michal and the kbuild list.  Michal?
> 
> (I was offline last week).
> 
> The _preferred_ way probably is not to do it :), but otherwise you can
> set CFLAGS_hweight.o depending on CONFIG_X86(_32|_64), just like you do
> in arch/x86/lib/Makefile already.

I guess one way to achieve that is to create a arch/x86/lib/hweight.c
that includes lib/hweight.c and give the x86 one special compile flags
and not build the lib on.

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