Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 23:57:51 +0200 From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha support.s src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c support.s src/sys/i386/include md_var.h src/sys/i386/isa npx.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 support.s src/sys/powerpc/powerpc bcopy.c src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 support.S ... Message-ID: <xzphe9ec4dc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030404215301.GA37335@HAL9000.homeunix.com> (David Schultz's message of "Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:53:02 -0800") References: <200304041729.h34HTtVb027430@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030404173635.GA22147@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030404182223.GA36706@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <xzpn0j6c6m5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030404215301.GA37335@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > I don't care about the microoptimization if it's actually > problematic in some way. I just don't see why calling a function > that jumps to the address of a pointer is aesthetically better > than calling the pointer in the first place. Mostly because none of the other platforms do it that way, so we had to special-case i386 in <sys/systm.h> which is supposed to be MI. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org
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