Re: inline asm and multi-alternative constraints

[David Wohlferd <dw at LimeGreenSocks dot com>]

On 11/9/2015 2:03 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> On 09/11/15 09:57, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > On 07/11/15 09:23, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 11:50:40PM -0800, David Wohlferd wrote:
> > > > > The same goes for some constraints and almost all output modifiers.
> > > > Are you suggesting more doc changes?  Looking thru the pages you reference:
> > > >
> > > > - Starting with 'modifiers', "=+&" and (reluctantly) "%" seem reasonable
> > > > for inline asm.  But both "#*" seem sketchy.
> > > Output modifiers, not constraint modifiers -- things like "%X0" in
> > > the output template.  Many are only useful in the machine description,
> > > but some (like that 'X' for rs6000) are vital for asm as well.
> > They're not just useful, they're essential on AArch64 and ARM.  They're
> > needed, for example, to get the 32/64-bit register sizing correct.
> On the other hand, we have %S on ARM which cannot ever be used from
> inline assembler: it matches the result of a match_operator rule with
> complex internal structure that could never be generated from user code.
>
> R.

I don't know enough about ARM to be comfortable making a change here 
myself.  But dropping this out of the docs is simple enough.  All you 
need to do is wrap it with

    @ifset INTERNALS
    @end ifset

Then it will still show up in the Machine Description section, but not 
the users' guide.

dw