Re: [PATCH] ilog2: Improve ilog2 for constant arguments

From: Luc Van Oostenryck
Date: Sat Nov 21 2020 - 15:23:36 EST


On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 01:51:54PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Other option would be to change the const_ilog2 macro, though as the
> description says it is meant to be used also in C constant expressions,
> and while GCC will fold it to constant with constant argument even in
> those, perhaps it is better to avoid using extensions in that case.

Just for info, the description is outdated and Sparse is just fine with
__builtin_clzll() and friends in constant expressions (since Feb 2017)

-- Luc