Zachary Turner wrote:
> I guess the same reason people would want any asm functions in C
> source code. Sometimes it's just the best way to express something.
> Like in the example I mentioned, I could write 4 different functions
> in assembly, one for each size suffix, wrap them all up in a sepa
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Zachary Turner wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Paolo Bonzini
>> wrote:
This is one example, but it illustrates a general concept that I think
is really useful and I personally have used numerous times for lots of
ot
Zachary Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Paolo Bonzini
> wrote:
>>> This is one example, but it illustrates a general concept that I think
>>> is really useful and I personally have used numerous times for lots of
>>> other instructions than SCAS. If there is a way to achieve thi
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> This is one example, but it illustrates a general concept that I think
>> is really useful and I personally have used numerous times for lots of
>> other instructions than SCAS. If there is a way to achieve this
>> without using a naked fun
This is one example, but it illustrates a general concept that I think
is really useful and I personally have used numerous times for lots of
other instructions than SCAS. If there is a way to achieve this
without using a naked function then please advise.
Keeping the __asm syntax, I'd be surpr
Hi,
I know this has been discussed before, I have read through some of the
archives and read about some of the rationale. I want to raise it
again however, because I don't think anyone has ever presented a good
example of where it is really really useful on x86 architectures.
In general, it is v
