Re: PROPOSAL: Extend inline asm syntax with size spec

Segher Boessenkool
2018-12-02T06:47:12Z

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:06:02AM +0100, Boris Petkov wrote:
> On November 29, 2018 1:25:02 PM GMT+01:00, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >This will only be fixed from GCC 9 on, if the compiler adopts it. The
> >kernel wants to support ancient GCC, so it will need to have a
> >workaround
> >for older GCC versions anyway.
>
> What about backporting it, like Richard says?

Let me first get it into GCC trunk :-)

It should backport fine, sure; and I'll work on that.

Segher