On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 23:30 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > gcc also tries to count the number of instructions, to guess how large in
> > bytes the asm block is, as it could make a difference for near vs short
> > jumps, etc.
>
> Are you sure? I doubt it. It would need a full asm parser to do this
> properly and then even it could be wrong
> (e.g. when the sections are switched like Linux does extensively)
>
> gcc doesn't have such a parser.
>
> Also on x86 gcc doesn't need to care about long/short anyways because
> the assembler takes care of this and the other instructions who cared
> about this (loop) isn't generated anymore.
>
> You're probably confusing it with some other compiler, who sometimes
> do this. e.g. the Microsoft inline asm syntax requires assembler parsing
> in the compiler.
>
> > I wonder it it also affects the instruction count the inline heuristics
> > use?
>
> AFAIK it counts like one operand.
>
> -Andi
GCC counts newlines and semicolons and uses that number as the likely
instruction count.
See asm_insn_count() in gcc/gcc/final.c
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Nicholas Miell <[email protected]>
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