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Re: [patch] Change inline asm to work with llvm-gcc

From: Rafael Espindola <espindola at google dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Evan Cheng <evan dot cheng at apple dot com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:30:49 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] Change inline asm to work with llvm-gcc
References: <38a0d8450812230321kde2343ai7ff905a6f49dbb28@mail.gmail.com> <20081223152441.GC5274@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

> 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,
-- 
Rafael Avila de Espindola

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