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Re: i386 and asm jumping

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to hard optimize a special case in my 
> code.  And what I would like to do is really just
> the following:
> 
>      the_label:
> 	...
> 	__asm___ ("jmp %0" :: "?" (&& the_label));
> 
> What I wanna know is if this is possible?  What
> constrain should I use?  `m' doesn't work, neither
> do `p'.  Any ideas?

It is not possible.  ASM statements may not jump.
You may want to use computed goto GCC extension istead.

Honza
> 
> regards
> johan
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