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Re: Your Jan 15 change broke the x86
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:00:37PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Should we reject it at expansion time or in reload?
>
> I'd say expansion time, but I worry that we'd start balking at asms that have
> worked for years. Then again, it may be the case that nobody uses the <>
> constraints in an asm without either an "o" or "m".
I dunno.
The thing is, at the moment they'll fall prey to the strictness of
asm_operand_ok. So if we accept them at expansion time, we have to
relax asm_operand_ok. Which is ok, I guess. It's intent is to get
us as close as possible to something reloadable. If it isn't
possible...
r~