On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:29 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > Sure, but it massively de-optimizes the code. If you want the best > performance -- and if you're using asm I guess you do -- you'll > want to use GNU-style asm. > > Andrew. How can that be? The thing that matters is the machine code. Both syntaxes generate exactly the same machine code. Bob