Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of

"David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:03:35 +0000

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From: Stuart Brady <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:12:42 +0000

> There are versions of hweight*() for sparc64 which use POPC when
> ULTRA_HAS_POPULATION_COUNT is defined, but AFAICS, it's never defined.

That's right, the problem here is that no chips actually implement
the instruction in hardware, it is software emulated, ie. useless :-)