On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 16:22 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:45 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'd have to try, but I think you are right. It was probably an > > overoptimization back in 1997 when the code got added to > > linux-2.1.68pre1, and compilers have become smarter in the > > meantime ;-) > > How do you track history pre-git (2.6.XX)? https://landley.net/kdocs/fullhist/