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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Ok, I understand.  The only reason I was asking about
Date: 11 Feb 2002 22:13:08 GMT
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Joel Saunders <jbs30000 AT aol DOT com> wrote:
> the clobber list is because the place where I got the example
> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/brennan/brennan_att_inline_djgpp.html
> had
> #define rep_movsl(src, dest, numwords) \
> __asm__ __volatile__ ( \
>   "cld\n\t" \
>   "rep\n\t" \
>   "movsl" \
>   : : "S" (src), "D" (dest), "c" (numwords) \
>   : "%ecx", "%esi", "%edi" )

That version appeared correct (i.e. GCC accepted it) back when Brennan
wrote that tutorial of his.  GCC has changed several times since then,
and it's those changes that broke this particular code.

IOW: you just discovered that this tutorial is outdated.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.