What's the right way of telling gcc that an input register is clobbered? I've two asm statements in the same function, both of which have "a" (a) as an input constraint; the code corrupts RAX, and the optimiser is not reloading a into RAX before starting the second bit of code. If I add "rax" to the clobbers list, I get an error modp2.cpp:55: error: can't find a register in class ___AREG___ while reloading ___asm___ Also: how do I refer to r8 through r15 in register constraints on x64? If I replace "r" (p) by "r9" (p) in the second asm statement, I get an error modp2.cpp:64: error: matching constraint references invalid operand number --- the function asm("mulq %2\n mov %%rdx, %%r12 \n mov %%rax, %%r13 \n" \ "mov %3,%%rax \n mulq %%r13 \n mov %%rdx, %%r10 \n mov %%rax, %% r11 \n" \ "mov %4,%%rax \n mulq %%r12 \n mov %%rdx, %%r8 \n mov %%rax, %% r9 \n" \ "mov %3,%%rax \n mulq %%r12 \n add %%rax, %%r10 \n adc %%rdx, %% r9 \n adc $0, %%r8 \n" \ "mov %4,%%rax \n mulq %%r13 \n add %%rax, %%r10 \n adc %%rdx, %% r9 \n adc $0, %%r8 \n" \ "shrd %%cl, %%r8, %%r9\n mov %%r9, %%rdx" : "=&d" (aus) : "a" (a), "r" (b), "r" (il), "r" (ih), "c" (pis) : "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11", "r12", "r13"); quotient=aus; u64 rem; asm("mulq %2\nmov %%rdx,%%r12 \n mov %%rax, %%r13 \n" \ "mov %3,%%rax\nmulq %4\n" \ "sub %%rax,%%r13 \n" \ "mov %%r13, %%rdx" : "=&d" (rem) : "a" (a), "r" (b), "c" (aus), "r" (p) : "r12", "r13");