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Re: Adding assembly after end of functions in GCC-3.4

From: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
To: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain at yahoo dot fr>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:53:13 -0800
Subject: Re: Adding assembly after end of functions in GCC-3.4
References: <20040212142121.99997.qmail@web11808.mail.yahoo.com>

Etienne Lorrain wrote:

 between functions, if it would (undocumentely) work to put an
 asm("") in between the last return of a function and the closing
 brace of the function.

No. Unreachable code will be deleted by dead code elimination (DCE) optimizations. Even if the code is volatile, it will still be deleted. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com

References:
- Adding assembly after end of functions in GCC-3.4
  - From: Etienne Lorrain

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