On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 07:25:07PM +0100, Frank Wille wrote: > Hmm... this is a gcc feature. Does gcc insert an eieio instruction for > PowerPC in this case? Because that's what I need.
Ah, no, I misunderstood your commit message - it just forbids the compiler to reorder instructions across this barrier, it does not prevent the cpu from doing so inside the instruction pipeline. Martin