Re: [HACKERS] Re: Alpha tas() patch

2000-12-28 Thread Tom Lane
Adriaan Joubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For Tru64 there are macros in /usr/include/alpha/builtins.h > which do the job. It would be interesting to see the assembly code that those macros expand to. > Doing this in assembler is totally non-trivial, as most versions are > only liable to work

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Alpha tas() patch

2000-12-28 Thread Brent Verner
On 28 Dec 2000 at 17:03 (+0200), Adriaan Joubert wrote: | Hi, | | I missed the beginning of this thread. Are you doing this for Tru64 or | for Linux? For Tru64 there are macros in /usr/include/alpha/builtins.h | which do the job. gcc + Tru64, since gcc-2.95.2 doesn't implement the builtins

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Alpha tas() patch

2000-12-28 Thread Adriaan Joubert
Hi, I missed the beginning of this thread. Are you doing this for Tru64 or for Linux? For Tru64 there are macros in /usr/include/alpha/builtins.h which do the job. Doing this in assembler is totally non-trivial, as most versions are only liable to work on single-processor machines and no