------- Comment #2 from nelhage at mit dot edu 2009-10-08 22:20 ------- For an example of real code that wanted to use toplevel inline ASM, see the following recent Linux commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/796216a57fe45c04adc35bda1f0782efec78a713
Lack of this feature necessitated a fairly hideous (IMO) workaround, and a multi-paragraph documentation of it in the commit messages. Note that while (as stated in the commit message) an unrelated GCC issue originally caused the desire to use inline assembly, a later commit (0b1c723d0bd199300a1a2de57a46000d17577498) takes advantage of the fact that this block uses inline assembly, and so they really do want a toplevel assembly block here. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41045
