Re: [avr-gcc-list] Optimiser bloats code

[Paulo Marques]

Wouter van Gulik wrote:
> [...]
> A loop requires more instructions and is much slower. Anyone an idea on
> smaller bit inversion for just 3 bits? Because if this is the smallest
> way, you cant tell the compiler to do so :(

Not really a better idea for 3 bits, but it would be for 4:

prog_uint8_t inv_table[8]={0,4,2,6,1,5,3,7};

unsigned char inv_test(void)
{
  return pgm_read_byte(&inv_table[PORTB & 0x3]);
}

The output from gcc 4.2.0:

byte inv_test(void)
{
        return pgm_read_byte(&inv_table[PORTB & 0x3]);
  96:   e8 b3           in      r30, 0x18       ; 24
  98:   ff 27           eor     r31, r31
  9a:   e3 70           andi    r30, 0x03       ; 3
  9c:   f0 70           andi    r31, 0x00       ; 0
  9e:   ec 5a           subi    r30, 0xAC       ; 172
  a0:   ff 4f           sbci    r31, 0xFF       ; 255
  a2:   e4 91           lpm     r30, Z
}
  a4:   8e 2f           mov     r24, r30
  a6:   99 27           eor     r25, r25
  a8:   08 95           ret

If not for the redundant "andi r31, 0x00" (when r31 has just been zeroed
by the "eor r31,r31") it would give the same number of instructions as
your code.

The nice thing about this approach is that it works the same for 4 or
more bits (up to 8).

Just my 2 cents,

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