Hello all, This seems to work: #include <stdint.h> typedef uint64_t u64x4_t __attribute__ ((vector_size (32))); int main(void) { register u64x4_t abcd asm("ymm0"); register u64x4_t efgh asm("ymm1"); asm volatile ("vextractf128 $1, %1, %q0" : "=x" (abcd) : "x" (efgh)); } $ gcc-snapshot.sh -O3 -mavx q-modifier.c $ objdump -d -m i386:x86-64:intel a.out |less ... c4 e3 7d 19 c8 01 vextractf128 xmm0,ymm1,0x1 ... If the approach is correct I could inform the clang project of the syntax (it's an internal compiler error in clang-3.9). Regards, Adam Warner