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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: gcc feature request / RFC: extra clobbered regs
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:41:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55930D24.4040105@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150630213736.GQ10247@tucnak.redhat.com>

On 06/30/2015 02:37 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> I'd say the most natural API for this would be to allow
> f{fixed,call-{used,saved}}-REG in target attribute.

Either that or

	__attribute__((fixed(rbp,rcx),used(rax,rbx),saved(r11)))

... just to be shorter.  Either way, I would consider this to be
desirable -- I have myself used this to good effect in a past life
(*cough* Transmeta *cough*) -- but not a high priority feature.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-30 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-30 21:22 gcc feature request / RFC: extra clobbered regs Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-30 21:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-30 21:37 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-30 21:41   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-06-30 21:48     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-30 21:52       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-30 21:55         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-30 22:02           ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-07-01  4:20             ` Jeff Law
2015-07-01 15:23   ` Vladimir Makarov
2015-07-01 15:27     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-01 17:57       ` Vladimir Makarov
2015-07-01 15:31     ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-07-01 17:35       ` Vladimir Makarov
2015-07-01 17:38         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-01 17:43         ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-07-01 18:12           ` Vladimir Makarov
2015-07-01 20:09           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-02  6:16           ` H. Peter Anvin

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