Efficientness of Compiler Generated Code

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <7756 at ihlpf.ATT.COM> pcl at ihlpf.UUCP (pcl) writes:
>Anyway, the following C program generates the corresponding 8086 and 68k
>instructions which seem quite inefficient.  Any optimization suggestions?
>
>********* C ***********
>
>struct DHDR {
>	unsigned short	gfi: 4;
>	unsigned short	lci:12;
>	unsigned short	pr : 3;
>	unsigned short	m  : 1;
>	unsigned short	ps : 3;
>	unsigned short	x  : 1;
>};
>
>char pktbuf[1024];
>struct DHDR *dhp;
>main()
>{
>	dhp = (struct DHDR *)pktbuf;
>	dhp->pr++;
>	dhp->ps++;
>}

> [ really awful compiler output deleted ]

The 68020 has bit field instructions which help quite a bit.

Here's the 68020 code that GCC generates:
(using GCC v1.19: gcc -m68020 -fomit-frame-pointer -O -S T.c)

	text
	even
	global main
main:
	mov.l &pktbuf,dhp
	bfextu pktbuf+2{&0:&3},%d0
	add.l &1,%d0
	bfins %d0,pktbuf+2{&0:&3}
	bfextu pktbuf+2{&4:&3},%d0
	add.l &1,%d0
	bfins %d0,pktbuf+2{&4:&3}
	rts
	comm dhp,4
	comm pktbuf,1024

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