Re: [PATCH] OCTEON: workaround linking failures with gcc-4.4.x 32-bits toolchains

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 08/02/2010 07:59 AM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:15:40PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>
> > > executables by default, we will produce __lshrti3 in sched_clock() which is
> > > never resolved so the kernel fails to link. Unconditionally use the inline
> > > assembly version as suggested by David Daney, which works around the issue.
> > >
> > > CC: David Daney<ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli<florian@openwrt.org>
> > Acked-by: David Daney<ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> Applied - but maybe we should just add lshrti3 instead?  We already have
> ashldi3, ashrdi3 and lshrdi3.
Too slow I think.  If we are doing 128-bit arithmetic, it should only be 
for tricky things that we are optimizing to go real fast.  In this case, 
we don't want to be making function calls.
Well that is my $0.02

David Daney