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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] incorrect asm constraints for ll/sc constructs
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:15:48 +0200
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>  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"...

> 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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Subject: Re: [PATCH] incorrect asm constraints for ll/sc constructs
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:15:48 +0200
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>  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"...

> 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;
> }