On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:56:00AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > > > AFAICS, that's way over the top. That kind of stuff is needed only > > when builtin can't be described as a normal function. This, OTOH... > > On the other hand, adding "true" builtin functions is actually a lot > cheaper than adding bogus code to be parsed explicitly. > > So I'd actually prefer a way to have a table to describe and initialize > these things, as a way to make it a lot more efficient, and without the > silly preprocessor buffer hacks.. > > The preprocessor hack is certainly simple, but it's not what you really > want in real life. Well... Keep in mind that those _are_ functions; i.e. unlike something like __builtin_choose_expr() you can pass such puppy to a function expecting a callback, etc. So it's not enough to special-case them; we really need types for those symbols. I don't think that it will be more efficient in the end. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
