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Re: [testcase] Simplified testcases why current gcc trunk cannot compile glibc
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: [testcase] Simplified testcases why current gcc trunk cannot compile glibc
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:27:15 -0700
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, aoliva at redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20011015125746.C9037@redhat.com> <20011015201821.042C199522@perdition.linnaean.org>
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:18:21PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Why not support it more directly? That is, something in `asm' syntax that
> constitutes a proper reference to the function so that the compiler neither
> warns about it being unused nor fails to emit the code.
Hmm. Changing extended asms to accept arguments outside of functions
wouldn't be a bad idea anyway -- lots of times we just want constant
integer arguments such as offsetoff(my_struct, member).
r~