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From: Stefan Lucks <lucks@th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
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Subject: Re: sub-optimal code for packed boolean arrays -- bug or inherent
 limitation
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:25:50 +0200
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As Clear, internally using XOR, is optimised well, have you tried to 
rewrite Flip using XOR for bit-flipping, e.g., as follows:

     procedure Flip(B : in out Bitboard_T; I : in Index_T) is
        One: constant Bitborard := (others => True);
     begin
         B(i) := B(i) xor One;
     end;

(Even though the optimiser appararently could be improved here -- I would 
not consider this a bug, it is more like a missing feature -- this might 
perhaps solve your current problem without having to use inline-assembly.)


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Stefan Lucks      (moved to Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
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