Re: New C parser [patch]

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> The only way
> asm() at top level can continue to make sense is if we pass it along
> to cgraph, and somehow get cgraph to preserve the global order of
> functions and asm()s.  [Mind you, I would not have any problem with
> dropping this feature.]

False.

----
static void doit(int, int);

__asm__("\
	.ent doit	\n\
doit:			\n\
	...		\n\
	ret		\n\
	.end doit	\n\
");

void foo(int a)
{
  doit(a, a+1);
}
----

For non-trivial definitions of doit, this can be extremely useful.
Glibc, for instance, uses this in ld.so.


r~