Unverified Commit 03be0caa authored by kokke's avatar kokke Committed by GitHub
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Commenting reason for extra calls to xtime()

parent f4b1701a
......@@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ static void MixColumns(state_t* state)
}
// Multiply is used to multiply numbers in the field GF(2^8)
// Note: The last call to xtime() is unneeded, but often ends up generating a smaller binary
// The compiler seems to be able to vectorize the operation better this way.
// See https://github.com/kokke/tiny-AES-c/pull/34
#if MULTIPLY_AS_A_FUNCTION
static uint8_t Multiply(uint8_t x, uint8_t y)
{
......@@ -326,7 +329,7 @@ static uint8_t Multiply(uint8_t x, uint8_t y)
((y>>1 & 1) * xtime(x)) ^
((y>>2 & 1) * xtime(xtime(x))) ^
((y>>3 & 1) * xtime(xtime(xtime(x)))) ^
((y>>4 & 1) * xtime(xtime(xtime(xtime(x))))));
((y>>4 & 1) * xtime(xtime(xtime(xtime(x)))))); /* this last call to xtime() can be omitted */
}
#else
#define Multiply(x, y) \
......
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