Em 03-05-2012 07:35, Sakari Ailus escreveu:
> Hi Mauro,
>
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Em 02-05-2012 21:42, Andy Walls escreveu:
>>> On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 19:17 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>
>>>> We can speed-up the conversions, with something like:
>>>>
>>>> enum foo {
>>>> BAR
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> if (sizeof(foo) != sizeof(u32))
>>>> call_compat_logic().
>>>>
>>>> I suspect that sizeof() won't work inside a macro.
>>>
>>> sizeof() is evaluated at compile time, after preprocessing.
>>> It should work inside of a macro.
>>
>> I tried to compile this small piece of code:
>>
>> enum foo { BAR };
>> #if sizeof(foo) != sizeof(int)
>> void main(void) { printf("different sizes\n"); }
>> #else
>> void main(void) { printf("same size\n"); }
>> #endif
>>
>> It gives an error:
>>
>> /tmp/foo.c:2:11: error: missing binary operator before token "("
>>
>> So, either this doesn't work, because sizeof() is evaluated too late,
>> or some trick is needed.
>>
>> Weird enough, cpp generates the error, but the expression is well-evaluated:
>>
>> $ cpp /tmp/foo.c
>> # 1 "/tmp/foo.c"
>> # 1 "<built-in>"
>> # 1 "<command-line>"
>> # 1 "/tmp/foo.c"
>> /tmp/foo.c:2:11: error: missing binary operator before token "("
>> enum foo { BAR };
>
> sizeof() is processed by C compiler while #if is preprocessor directive, and
> its arguments have to be evaluable by the preprocessor, which is the problem
> here.
>
> The C compiler can also optimise away things like that but it's more
> difficult to see whether that takes place or not; one would need to look at
> the resulting assembly code.
This code:
void main(void) {
if (sizeof(int) == sizeof(char))
printf("same size\n");
else
printf("different sizes\n");
}
should be evaluated by the compiler as if (0) and should not generate any code.
The assembler for it is:
.file "foo.c"
.section .rodata
.LC0:
.string "different sizes"
.text
.globl main
.type main, @function
main:
.LFB0:
.cfi_startproc
pushq %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
.cfi_offset 6, -16
movq %rsp, %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_register 6
movl $.LC0, %edi
call puts
popq %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa 7, 8
ret
.cfi_endproc
.LFE0:
.size main, .-main
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2)"
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits
So, gcc will remove the dead code, as expected.
So, the trick is to do something similar to that on the compat code, in order
to avoid any penalties when sizeof(enum) is 32 bits.
Regards,
Mauro
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