Re: [PATCH 4/14] i386 / Clean up asm and volatile keywords in desc

* Andi Kleen ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:53:51PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > Stop using extra underscores on asm and volatiles, that is just silly.
> 
> Actually the volatiles might be still useful. Or if you drop them
> at least add memory clobbers.

They are still there, just the underscores on both asm and volatile got
pulled.

> I had sometimes bugs  on x86-64
> with the compiler moving such assembly statements with invisible 
> side effects around too aggressively and causing weird problems.
> 
> Agreed on the underscores, I hate them too :)

Heh, same here ;-)

thanks,
-chris
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