Inline asm - adding opcode for unsupported instruction "pause"?

Toshi Morita tm2@best.com
Thu Apr 19 13:11:00 GMT 2001


> The Pentium IV adds a new instruction "pause" with an opcode of F3 90. 
> My version of gcc doesn't support it.  I would like to simply imbed the
> bytes F3 90.  How do I do that?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Timur Tabi - ttabi@interactivesi.com
> Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com

This isn't an gcc bug, btw.

You should use inline assembly, and use whatever
pseudo-ops are used by your back-end assembler
to embed byte data.

Toshi




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