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Re: [patch] Change inline asm to work with llvm-gcc
> Why should glibc care that llvm redefines semantics of inline asm?
> Inline asm is a GNU extension, coming from GCC, so if llvm wants to support
> it, it better should be compatible.
It is a compromise. inline asm is an GNU extension, but other
compilers support (part) of it. This is a small change to make another
free compiler able to use glibc. So
*) This will have no bad effect on glibc with normal gcc (doing some
testing for sanity check)
*) The change is minimal an requires no effort to maintain
*) Makes two free software project work better with each other
> Jakub
>
Cheers,
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