Re: GCC Inline assembly - immediate integer operand emit without $

[Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The following example tries to create an elf section with three
> integers using inline assembly.
>     asm (".pushsection .test\n"
>          ".long 0, %0, %1\n"
>          ".popsection"
>          :: "i"(ENUM_VAL2), "i"(2));
>
> But it fails because gcc emits the assembly code with $.
> Is there a way to instruct gcc to avoid emitting $?
>     .pushsection .test
>      .long 0, $1, $2 <<<<<<
>      .popsection

    asm (".pushsection .test\n"
         ".long 0, %P0, %P1\n"
         ".popsection"
         :: "i"(ENUM_VAL2), "i"(2));

but this is quite hackish, %P isn't meant for this.  On newer GCC
versions there is %p, which is better.

Can't you just do this with attribute((section(".test")))?


Segher