From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: inline trouble
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 04:22:29 GMT
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On 3 Feb 2000 02:55:52 GMT, buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner) wrote:

>/* This worked with older gcc versions, and from my understanding
>this was also documented as working */
>type someval;
>asm(
>    /* Use somereg, and modify somereg */
>    : /* output is not interesting in this example */ 
>    : ("somereg"), someval 
>    : (somereg) /* yes, somereg will be modified */
>   );
>
>translate this to
>
>/* This works with gcc 2.95 */
>type someval, tempval;
>tempval = someval;
>asm(
>    /* Use somereg, and modify somereg */
>    : ("=somereg"), "tempval" 
>    : ("0"), "someval"
>    /* no clobbered registers needed here */
>   )

If it's that easy, why hasn't some hacker coded up some
asmclean.c that cleans up inline assembly in a C program?

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