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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG mm] "fixed" i386 memcpy inlining buggy
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:18:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d30uga$2j0$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112789157.32279.13.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net>


> The only thing that would avoid this is to either tell the compiler to
> never put esi/edi in memory (which I think is not possibly across
> different versions of gcc) or to always generate a single asm section
> for all the different cases.

Use __asm__ ("%esi") and __asm__ ("%edi").  It is not guaranteed that 
they access the registers always (you can still have copy propagation 
etcetera); but, if your __asm__ statement constraints match the register 
you specify, then you can be reasonably sure that good code is produced.

Paolo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 14:37 memcpy(a,b,CONST) is not inlined by gcc 3.4.1 in Linux kernel Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-29 15:06 ` Richard Guenther
2005-03-29 15:08 ` Nathan Sidwell
2005-03-29 15:13 ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-03-29 15:42   ` Andrew Pinski
2005-03-30  2:27     ` Gerold Jury
2005-03-30  6:15       ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-01 21:43         ` Jan Hubicka
2005-04-02 12:18           ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-02 12:26             ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-05 16:34               ` [BUG mm] "fixed" i386 memcpy inlining buggy Christophe Saout
2005-04-06 10:14                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-06 11:05                   ` Dave Korn
2005-04-06 11:13                     ` Dave Korn
2005-04-06 11:53                       ` Dave Korn
2005-04-06 11:56                         ` Dave Korn
2005-04-06 13:18                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-06 14:16                           ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-06 12:05                   ` Christophe Saout
2005-04-06 12:36                     ` Andrew Haley
2005-04-06 15:18                     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2005-04-06 16:11                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-29 20:22 ` [PATCH] fix i386 memcpy Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-29 20:24   ` Denis Vlasenko

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