On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 04:24:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 01:46:23PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

quoted

For me the old trick of casting one side as long long still works:

  unsigned long long mul3264(unsigned int a, unsigned int b)
  {
        return (unsigned long long)a * b;
  }

i386:
  00000000 <mul3264>:
     0: 8b 44 24 08           mov    0x8(%esp),%eax
     4: f7 64 24 04           mull   0x4(%esp)
     8: c3                    ret    

x86_64:
  0000000000000000 <mul3264>:
     0: 89 f8                 mov    %edi,%eax
     2: 89 f7                 mov    %esi,%edi
     4: 48 0f af c7           imul   %rdi,%rax
     8: c3                    retq   

Or maybe you had something else in mind ?

Last time I tried it, the thing refused :/ which is how we ended up with
mul_u32_u32() in asm.

Oh I trust you, I do remember having noticed it on one gcc version as
well (maybe 4.5). But I've been successfully using this since 2.95, and
could quickly recheck that 4.7, 4.8, 5.4, 6.5, 7.4, 9.3 and 11-trunk do
produce the code above, which is reassuring, as we all prefer to limit
the amount of asm statements.

Willy