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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:53:11 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Bug 00314 -- div() still broken
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Hello.

CBFalconer wrote:
[snip]
> WRT div/ldiv, I am morally certain that their original purpose was
> to avoid two executions of the divide instruction, which implies
> that they should really be provided as macros that create assembly
> language.  As now implemented they have grown to add the overhead
> of a call, and are fairly useless unless one operand is volatile.

Well, we can define macro versions of div, ldiv and lldiv. So you could submit
a patch to fix it. ;)

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]