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[Caml-list] Bug? Printf, %X and negative numbers

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@e...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Bug? Printf, %X and negative numbers


> For structures 32 words or less, you can do it like (using x86 assembly
> language here):

   ...actual code snipped...

Ok, that's not necessarily too bad.

I guess I was just intuitively dismissing anything that felt like it 
had more than a couple of instructions of "overhead".   I'm probably 
also biased by SMP-thinking - read-modify-write operations feel 
inherently evil. ;-)

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