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Re: Deprecating basic asm in a function - What now?
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 19:36:21 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Deprecating basic asm in a function - What now?
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Hi,
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, David Wohlferd wrote:
> All basic asm in trunk: 1,105 instances.
> - Exclude 273 instances with empty strings leaving 832.
> - Exclude 271 instances for boehm-gc project leaving 561.
> - Exclude 202 instances for testsuite project leaving 359.
> - Exclude 282 instances that are (apparently) top-level leaving
>
> ~77 instances of basic-asm-in-a-function to be fixed for gcc builds.
> Most of these are in gcc/config or libgcc/config with just a handful per
> platform. Lists available upon request.
Well, I think this quite clearly shows how bad an idea it would be to
deprecate basic asm. We are just one project, and ourself and our
dependencies already have 77+271 uses of them, not counting the testsuite
which also reflects some real world usage.
I see zero gain by deprecating them and only churn. What would be the
advantage again?
Ciao,
Michael.