From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:59:07 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Avoid Intel compiler optimizes away prefetching
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f4140ecc0c78d3d89f4e2459105e3ce3a1ab3ce1

Avoid Intel compiler optimizes away prefetching

Without this hack Intel compiler happily optimizes
away the gcc builtin call.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/src/tt.cpp b/src/tt.cpp
index 770e38b7..0396b287 100644
--- a/src/tt.cpp
+++ b/src/tt.cpp
@@ -181,7 +181,10 @@ void TranspositionTable::prefetch(const Key posKey) const {
 #if defined(_MSC_VER)
   _mm_prefetch((char*)first_entry(posKey), _MM_HINT_T0);
 #else
-  __builtin_prefetch((const void*)first_entry(posKey), 0, 3);
+  // We need to force an asm volatile here because gcc builtin
+  // is optimized away by Intel compiler.
+  char* addr = (char*)first_entry(posKey);
+  asm volatile("prefetcht0 %0" :: "m" (addr));
 #endif
 }