Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch)

Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch)

Posted Oct 20, 2008 15:41 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch) by alankila
Parent article: Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch)

By my words, GCC internally could have something like:

if ((signed long)operand <= 0x7fffffff)
    spewout(short opcode version, operand);
else
    /* default */
    spewout(long opcode version, operand);

With no option to tune it. Why would you even use the slower one when you can avoid it? It's not going to change anything... unless there is a bug in the CPU that causes the short opcode to go haywire.

Yes, malloc always returns a 64-bit quantity, and it does so in a register, which makes accesses cheap with small values: int *x = malloc(sizeof(int)); *x = 5; equates to mov dword ptr [rax], 5 which is the c7 00 code with a 32-bit operand for the "5".

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