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Message-ID: <20150624041950.GM1173@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:19:50 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] dynlink.c: compute modulus via magic
 multiplication

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 07:18:28AM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> > diff --git a/src/ldso/dynlink.c b/src/ldso/dynlink.c
> > index fa91b39..99dadd4 100644
> > --- a/src/ldso/dynlink.c
> > +++ b/src/ldso/dynlink.c
> > @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ struct td_index {
> >  	struct td_index *next;
> >  };
> >  
> > +struct udiv {
> > +	uint32_t mul;
> > +	int s1, s2, inc;
> > +};
> 
> Can use 'char' rather than 'int' here.

Yes, that seems like a nice size improvement, and it might also allow
the compiler to do additional optimizations based on knowledge of the
range.

Rich

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