Re: [myrinet] division operation

Greg Lindahl <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:11:31 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.network.myrinet.general
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:52:18PM -0700, Edgar A. Leon wrote:

> Considering that there's no division in the LANai instruction set, I
> find interesting that in the file gmcp.c, part of the mcp code uses
> divisions. Anybody knows why is that? 

Dividing a constant by a constant can be done at compile time. gcc has
the usual optimizations, and the lanai compiler is gcc with a special
backend. 

greg