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On 12/01/2015 10:38 AM, Rashmica Gupta wrote:
> Currently tbegin, tend etc are written as opcodes or asm instructions. So
> standardise these to asm instructions.

I think the asm instructions can be used with only newer versions of GCC.
But not sure, does it work with the older gcc as well ?