On 29/10/20 17:56, Arvind Sankar wrote: >> For those two just add: >> struct apic *apic = x86_system_apic; >> before all the assignments. >> Less churn and much better code. >> > Why would it be better code? > I think he means the compiler produces better code, because it won't read the global variable repeatedly. Not sure if that's true,(*) but I think I do prefer that version if Arnd wants to do that tweak. Paolo (*) if it is, it might also be due to Linux using -fno-strict-aliasing
