myatsina added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D15075#940711, @dolson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In the process of upgrading from clang 3.6.1 to a newer version, I ran into 
> this new error and thus imported the new intrinsics from intrin.h for rep 
> movsb and friends.  I see several discussions in this thread about how having 
> the registers solely in the inputs list is not sufficient for something like 
> "rep movsb" because the modified registers will not be clobbered, however 
> none of these suggested changes made it into the eventual intrin.h.
>
> I found that using the versions of `__movsb` and `__stosb` that are at the 
> head revision intrin.h produced bad code generation vs the versions with the 
> clobbers.  Note this is on PS4 under the older clang 3.6.1, but I don't see 
> anything in this CL that would update the clobber behavior for newer versions 
> of clang.
>
> Shouldn't the intrinsics be updated to use input/output registers or some 
> other method of clobbering?


Reid created https://reviews.llvm.org/D40686 which addresses this issue.


Repository:
  rL LLVM

https://reviews.llvm.org/D15075



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