Re: asm volatile statement reordering

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On 17/10/17 08:32, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> GCC guesses wrong on occasion. It will remove code that has value that
> but does not produce an output because the language does not allow us
> to express it.
> 
> The C language lacks what we need to express what we need to do. Its a
> failure of the C (and C++) committees. Its not a GCC failure.

I disagree.  If you want a bunch of asms to execute in a particular
order, add a memory clobber or some dependencies.  It's not difficult
once you have the understanding.  In this particular case, fixing it
is trivial, and there are many ways to do it.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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