svn commit: r187251 - head/sys/mips/malta

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 15 03:44:08 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:05:27PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20090115020752.52566769.stas at FreeBSD.org>
>             Stanislav Sedov <stas at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : > +		shift = 8 * (reg & 3);
> : >  
> : 
> : Would it make sense to replace this with
> : > +		shift = (reg & 3) << 3;
> : 
> : to not rely on possible compiler optimizations?
> 
> I don't think that it matters all that much these days...

But the name "shift" kinda suggests << instead of *, no?

./danfe


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