Re: [PATCH] incorrect asm constraints for ll/sc constructs

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:15:48PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> >  The following program cannot be compiled with gcc 2.95.3, because the
> > offset is out of range (I consider it a bug in gcc -- it should allocate
> > and load a temporary register itself and pass it appropriately as %0,
> 
> I think gcc can be forgiven for not allocating a temporary,
> given the ".set noat"...

Except, of course, gcc doesn't even know the set noat is there.  It
doesn't parse the interior of asm() statements.

> 
> > matching the "R" constraint; still it's better than generating bad code):
> >
> > int main(void)
> > {
> > int *p;
> >
> > asm volatile(".set push\n\t"
> >   ".set noat\n\t"
> > "lw $0,%0\n\t"
> > ".set pop"
> > :
> > : "R" (p[0x10000]));
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
> 
> 
> 

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