Re: ilog2() problems with gcc-3.4.5

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:54:44 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:30:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > My sparc64 gcc-3.4.5 cross-compiler has decided to start emitting calls
> > to ____ilog2_NaN, due to
> > 
> >         eq_context->log_eq_size   = ilog2(eq->nent);
> > 
> > in drivers/net/mlx4/eq.c.  There's another reference coming out of
> > drivers/net/mlx4/srq.s.
> > 
> > I guess this is a gcc bug - it's gone and decided that
> > __builtin_constant_p(eq->nent) is true :(
> > 
> > We've had this __builtin_constant_p() bogon occur before now - it
> > happened with one or two kmalloc() callsites on x86 for some gcc
> > versions, but we seemed to make it go away by some means.
> 
> Googled a bit.
> Seems to be influenced by use of -Os versus -O2.
> 

Thanks.

<checks>

It's happening with both -Os and -O2.
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