Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> Why do we have code with ({}) at all?  I thought we were avoiding gccisms.

I think there were cases where the ({}) way produced instruction
sequences that were one instruction shorter than the "static inline"
method on powerpc.  Not much of a reason - I'd agree that we should
remove any remaining cases.

Simon.
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