Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1 pointless IDE noise reduction

Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:00:23 -0400


Willy Tarreau wrote:

>Hi !
>
>Well, although I usually don't like these endless coding-style threads, why
>don't you simply use this common form ? :
>
> return !!(foo & MASK);
>
>I found that the compilers like it much and easily emit conditionnal set
>instructions. Eg, on x86, this should be something like :
>
> testl MASK, foo
> setnz retcode
>
>
>
>
>

That was the first thing I'd suggested.

Let's canonize (in the "add to the canon" sense) this. :)

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