Subject: Re: question on inline assembly and long long values

From: Chris Friesen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:56:11 -0600

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> But the kernel code always runs in 64 bits mode...

The ppc kernel (not ppc64) runs in 64-bit mode?  An unsigned long long 
fits in a single register in C code?

Yeah, the optimisations really don't matter much...the ugly resulting 
code just bothered me.

Chris