long_by_long_mulhi() rewritten and commented

[Chuck Rasbold]

Sure. If you create the CR, I'll review the webrev.

-- Chuck

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Christian Thalinger
<Christian.Thalinger at sun.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:42 -0800, Chuck Rasbold wrote:
>> Christian -
>>
>> I think your suggested change with attribution to Hacker's Delight is
>> a good idea. C2 already references that source elsewhere.
>
> Good.
>
>>
>> I would change the constants in the comments to match those used in
>> the building the ideal graph. Then note in a single place that you
>> adjusted Warren's algorithm to 64 bits.
>
> Yeah.  Andrew Haley also said today on IRC that it's a bit confusing.
> Should I create a CR, make the changes and upload a webrev?
>
> -- Christian
>
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