Re: i386 flags register clober in inline assembly

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20011117214041.D3789@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
By author:    Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Actually the main dificulty I see is storing cc0 to variable.  CC0 is hard
> register and pretty strange one - you can't move it, you can't spill.  Using
> the syntax above you can easilly make cc0 from asm statement to span another
> cc0 set resulting in incorrect code or compiler crash.
> (the code generator may insert any code in between statements as it don't
> know he can't clobber cc0. In fact this is happening in from of if
> construct as deffered stack deallocators are flushed).
> 

Why can't you move or spill it?  There are a whole lot of ways you
could do either: pushf, sahf, setcc...

	-hpa
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