Re: MS/CW-style inline assembly for GCC

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> > The GCC syntax was a cheap quickie hack thrown in nearly twenty
> > years ago and hardly improved since then, even though empirically
> > it's one of the leading causes of bugs and problems with using GCC.
> > It may suit you just fine, but most users only put up with it
> > because they have no alternative.
>
> I think that saying that it is one of the leading causes of bugs and
> problems is a bit of a stretch.  How many entries in bugzilla are due
> to inline assembler?
I'm referring to bugs in user code attributable to misunderstanding
or misuse of GCC - asm statements themselves are too simple to have
many bugs. :-) If you wanted to count, it would be more useful to go
to a Linux kernel or glibc bug database and see how many bugs were
ultimately fixed by tweaking asm statements.

Stan