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Re: PATCH: PR target/39590: inline asm %z on amd64 says "ll" instead of "q"


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, this change will break existing asm statement with "fild%z".
>
> Only on Solaris -- but you cannot eat both pieces of the cake, all we
> can do is document this on the release notes. ?I don't think the
> likelihood of people using fild%z in asm statements is very high, while
> the PR reporter's case is at least plausible.
>

If it is the case, we can just output 'q' for %z. People can use
GNU assembler on Solaris. I also have contacted appropriate
Solaris people about this issue.



-- 
H.J.


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