Inlining bug on MIPS - both 2.95.3 and 3.0 branches

Daniel Jacobowitz dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Mar 9 20:46:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:41:08PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> If an asm statement specifies "ir", it will get an immediate or a register
> depending on the whim of the compiler.  
> 
> I expect that what happened is that the asm statement had a register
> for that argument, reload saw that the constraint matched, and
> so no further processing was done.  If the constraint was "i",
> reload would see that the constraint did not match and continue
> processing, and one of the things it'd try is to replace the register
> with its constant value.

Right.  Is there any way to define an inline asm in an inline function
with an "i" constraint for an argument of the function, though?  I get
(obviously) constraint violation errors.  I'm assuming this needs to
become a macro.

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