http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56715
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jakub at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-03-25 08:50:15 UTC --- Simply don't use const on the register asm vars for C++. The thing is that already the C++ frontend is replacing all the r4 const var uses with just 0x1000 (i.e. the initializer), that isn't really an optimization, but part of C++ semantics. r4 is an integral constant expression that evaluates to 0x1000. See ISO C++ 98, [expr.const]/1. So in foo what you are doing is actually void foo() { register const int r4 asm("r4") = 0x1000; asm volatile("swi #1" : : "r"(0x1000)); } and that of course can use any available register.