http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55734
--- Comment #4 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-12-18 15:52:40 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > In that thread, I had asked: > > --- > If you prefer, I can simply inline the popcount/clz functionality into > gcov-io.c directly (or at least when not using recent versions of > GCC). But that in fact would be duplicating the code, when I thought > Aldy's solution was trying to avoid that by providing the more general > interfaces. > > Teresa > --- > > but didn't get a response. Richard, is that your preferred route for > fixing this issue? We already have popcount_hwi and clz_hwi available. Can't you piggy-back on that to provide (inline in gcov-io.c) popcountll and clzll? Why do you need the long long variants anyway?