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Re: [PATCH] doc - document how gcc relies on the length of an asm

From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Cc: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:19:46 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc - document how gcc relies on the length of an asm
Organization: ARM Ltd.
Reply-to: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com

> This is a documentation update in response to PR 11442 where the user had 
> put a .skip directive in an ASM statement and this broke GCC's asm size 
> estimation rules.  It tries to make it clear that this is a user error 
> that will only be detected by the assembler.
> 
> Comments?  If I don't hear any objections I'll commit this in a few days.
> 
> R.
> 
> <date>  Richard Earnshaw  <rearnsha@arm.com>
> 
> 	* extend.texi: Document how GCC estimates and relies on the size
> 	of an asm.
> 

I tweaked the wording slightly and installed the following:

Attachment: asm-size.patch
Description: asm-size.patch

References:
- [PATCH] doc - document how gcc relies on the length of an asm
  - From: Richard Earnshaw

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