gnu/155309: [PATCH] gcc: backport bswap32() and bswap64()
Bruce Evans
brde at optusnet.com.au
Sun Mar 6 11:28:29 UTC 2011
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Martin Matuska wrote:
>> Description:
> In many ports, we have to deal with patching the missing bswap32()
> and bswap64() functions.
Er, we have these in endian.h.
> The gcc-4.3 branch SVN revision is 118361, is GPLv2-licensed,
> applies cleanly and is fully compatible with our code.
However, gcc doesn't know how to turn a C expression for bswap*() into
the bswap instruction. clang does. Does this patch fix that? Using
the C expression in all cases allows cleaning endian.h files, except
possibly on other arches that still need asm.
Bruce
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