On 11/23/2015 1:44 PM, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote:
On Nov 23, 2015, at 4:36 PM, David Wohlferd <d...@limegreensocks.com> wrote:
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The more I think about it, I'm just not keen on forcing all those old-style
asms to change.
If you mean you aren't keen to change them to "clobber all," I'm with you. If
you are worried about changing them from basic to extended, what kinds of problems do you
foresee? I've been reading a lot of basic asm lately, and it seems to me that most of it
would be fine with a simple colon. Certainly no worse than the current behavior.
I'm not sure. I have some asm("sync") which I think assume that this means
asm("sync"::"memory")
Another excellent reason to nudge people towards using extended asm. If
you saw asm("sync":::"memory"), you would *know* what it did, without
having to read the docs (which don't say anyway).
I'm pretty confident that asm("") doesn't clobber memory on i386, but
maybe that behavior is platform-specific. Since i386 doesn't have
"sync", I assume you are on something else?
If you have a chance to experiment, I'd love confirmation from other
platforms that asm("blah") is the same as asm("blah":). Feel free to
email me off list to discuss.
dw
