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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:48:17 -0500
To: Ani Joshi <ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com>, David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
From: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Some issues to resolve with XFree 4.0 yet
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Hi Ani,

I asked the same things a few weeks back.  David is the epxert, I am not.
I think the key is what David just wrote:

>All of the inlined functions
>should have constraints which reference the actual memory address read or
>written to ensure proper dependencies in optimized code.

I think the memory constraint on the exact address prevents the compiler
from moving this inline code to someplace inappropriate, but David and
Gabriel could answer better.

Kevin


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