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From: "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:46:18 -0500
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On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:28, S.=C3=87a=C4=9Flar Onur wrote:
> 27 Oca 2007 Cts tarihinde, Avi Kivity =C5=9Funlar=C4=B1 yazm=C4=B1=C5=
=9Ft=C4=B1:
> > The patch looks correct, but I don't understand the gcc error messa=
ge.
> > Are we sure this isn't a gcc 4.2 bug?
> >
> > "g" appears to be equivalent to "rmi", if "i" is impossible, gcc is=
 free
> > to use "r" or "m", no?
>
> Accorgind to GCC devs. its not a bug
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D29808), on comment #5 =
the
> problem described like;
>
> "g" means "r"+"i" so the register allocator in the -O0 case is select=
ing
> "r" while in the optimize case is selecting "i"

Sounds like a bug to me! After all, shouldn't the different sections of=
 code=20
be selecting the *same* bits ?

DRH