On Monday 23 July 2007 18:05:43 Satyam Sharma wrote:
> From: Satyam Sharma <[email protected]>
>
> [3/8] i386: bitops: Rectify bogus "+m" constraints
>
> From the gcc manual:
>
> Extended asm supports input-output or read-write operands. Use the
> constraint character `+' to indicate such an operand and list it with
> the output operands. You should only use read-write operands when the
> constraints for the operand (or the operand in which only some of the
> bits are to be changed) allow a register.
>
> So, using the "+" constraint modifier for memory, like "+m" is bogus.
> We must simply specify "=m" which handles the case correctly.
I checked with Honza (cc'ed) and he stated that the + are really needed
at least in newer gcc.
-Andi
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