------- Comment #8 from hp at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-06-10 17:36 ------- (In reply to comment #7) > I do think that bit operations in general > could be handled a lot better, and that would help out a whole lot of code.
If you add (compilable) test-cases with enhancement requests, carefully noting target and gcc version where you observed the lack of optimization, this would help a lot. > Once that framework was in place optimizing the byteswap builtin would be > trivial. We already have a "framework". -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40210