Hi, I'm not sure if I'm doing something stupid or not, but the following code does odd things to g++-3.3.1. If I compile it with -O(or higher), it compiles and runs, no problem. But if I try to compile without optimization, I get "error: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm'". If I change the two "ra's" in the asm operands to "a's", the program compiles error free at any -O level. I really think this is a bug in g++, but It's also possible I am misunderstanding the rather poor inline asm documentation. In any case, I'd really appreciate someone looking at this before I go insane. #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(void) { int a=1; int b=2; int &ra=a; int &rb=b; asm(" movl %0, %%eax\n\ add %2, %%eax\n\ movl %%eax, %0\n\ " :"=m"(ra) :"0"(ra), "m"(rb) :"%eax" ); cout << a << endl; return 0; } Thanks, Kyle Centers -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers