------- Comment #16 from law at redhat dot com 2005-10-18 00:01 -------
Subject: Re: Old-style asms don't clobber
memory
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:14 +0000, pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
>
> ------- Comment #8 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-10-17 23:14
> -------
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > You seem to be under the incorrect impression that gcc invented old-style
> > asms.
> > I'm confirming the bug.
>
> Considering that gcc-1.41 had no special handing old-style asm, I don't see
> why
> you think this is a bug. Though that did not have clobbers. They were added
> later.
Err, old-style asms predate GCC by a long long long time. Fundamentally
they're a blob of assembly code that can do literally anything. Thus
making any assumption about what they do is wrong.
jeff
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