* h...@zytor.com <h...@zytor.com> wrote:
> It's not just for working around a stupid GCC bug, but it also has a huge > potential for > cleaning up the inline asm in general. Sorry but that's just plain false. For example this patch: x86: cpufeature: use macros instead of inline assembly ... adds an extra macro indirection layer called STATIC_CPU_HAS, just to macrofy a single asm() statement that was perfectly readable and on-topic already... There are some other cases where macrofying is also a cleanup due to sharing and naming a common pattern of code, but this is by no means an absolute quality of this approach. Thanks, Ingo