Re: inline asm semantics: output constraint width smaller than input

["Török Edwin" <edwintorok@gmail.com>]

On 2009-01-23 20:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Having said that, llvm-gcc is not yet able to compile the full Linux 
>> kernel on its own [for example the boot code, due to asm(".code16gcc")], 
>> but with LLVM 2.4 it was possible to build "arch=UM", and "arch=X86" (by 
>> using gcc to build the bootcode). I'd like LLVM 2.5 to be able to build 
>> the kernel, so I'll file bugs for llvm/kernel depending on where the 
>> problem is.
>>     
>
> Could we get LLVM folks on the Cc: and see how difficult it would be to 
> fix this on the LLVM side? Asm constraints are used all around the place 
> and different input/output types are very common.

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http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3373#c9]

Best regards,
--Edwin