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From: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,  libc-ports@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/26] arm: Introduce thumb helpers s and pc_ofs
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1x1uc18b44.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512EA657.2010709@twiddle.net> (Richard Henderson's message of	"Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:35:35 -0800")

Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> writes:

> On 2013-02-27 16:20, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>> 	* sysdeps/arm/sysdep.h (s, pc_ofs): New macros.
>> Other assembler syntax macros have names in uppercase, and a single
>> character seems too short for a macro name to me.
>
> I simply found that "s(and)" is easy to read, and it looks close to
> "ands" to which it expands.  I'd rather drop this change, and all uses
> thereof, than make the code less readable.

How many places is it used?  From what I can tell, the only purpose is
to enable use of the 16-bit thumb encoding, so if it's used in just a
few places, the savings might not be worth the obfuscation.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mans@mansr.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-28  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-27  3:16 [PATCH 00/26] ARM improvements Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:16 ` [PATCH 05/26] arm: Introduce thumb helpers s and pc_ofs Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  0:20   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-28  0:36     ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  1:45       ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2013-02-27  3:16 ` [PATCH 01/26] Sync config.guess and config.sub with upstream Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 17:03   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:16 ` [PATCH 09/26] arm: Mark assembly files that will not use thumb mode Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  0:58   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:16 ` [PATCH 04/26] arm: Include libc-do-syscall in sysdep-rtld-routines Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  0:15   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:16 ` [PATCH 03/26] arm: Handle armv6 in preconfigure Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 18:02   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27 18:04     ` Roland McGrath
2013-02-27 18:08       ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 18:34     ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 19:57       ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 12/26] arm: Enable thumb2 mode in assembly files Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 15/26] arm: Delete LOADREGS macro Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  1:24   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 08/26] arm: Add IT insns for thumb mode Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  0:41   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 16/26] arm: Commonize BX conditionals Richard Henderson
2013-02-28 21:51   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 21/26] arm: Implement armv6t2 optimized strcpy Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 24/26] arm: Add optimized addmul_1 Richard Henderson
2013-02-28 13:58   ` Måns Rullgård
2013-02-28 18:19     ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-28 19:37       ` Måns Rullgård
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 22/26] arm: Implement armv6t2 optimized strchr, strrchr, rawmemchr Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  1:31   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 06/26] arm: Use pc_ofs Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  0:21   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 10/26] arm: Introduce and use LDST_PCREL Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  1:00   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 26/26] arm: Add optimized add_n and sub_n Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 25/26] arm: Add optimized submul_1 Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 02/26] arm: Update preconfigure fragment for gcc 4.8 Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 17:54   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27 18:11     ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 14/26] arm: Use push/pop mnemonics Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  1:03   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 07/26] arm: Introduce and use GET_TLS Richard Henderson
2013-02-28  0:34   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 23/26] arm: Rewrite armv6t2 memchr with uqadd8 Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  7:04   ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 20/26] arm: Implement armv6t2 optimized strlen Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 17:12   ` Måns Rullgård
2013-02-27 17:44     ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 17/26] arm: Unless arm4t, pop return address directly into pc Richard Henderson
2013-02-28 21:57   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 11/26] arm: Introduce and use NEGOFF series of macros Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 18/26] arm: Use GET_TLS more often Richard Henderson
2013-02-28 21:59   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 13/26] arm: Store lr in r2 around GET_TLS Richard Henderson
2013-02-27  3:17 ` [PATCH 19/26] arm: Add optimized ffs for armv6t2 Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 15:51   ` Måns Rullgård
2013-02-27 16:34     ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-27 17:49   ` Roland McGrath
2013-02-27 15:41 ` [PATCH 00/26] ARM improvements Måns Rullgård
2013-02-27 16:59 ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27 17:34   ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-28 22:05 ` Joseph S. Myers

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