gcc using clobbered register as input with inline assembly

[Timur Tabi]

** Reply to message from "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@stanford.edu> on Mon, 26 Mar
2001 10:20:21 -0800


> inline void
> BeginCpuTick(u64 *const pTime)
> {
>    register u64 xtime;
>    asm volatile ("rdtsc" : "=A" (xtime));
>    *pTime = xtime;
> }

Could I replace the above with:

inline void
BeginCpuTick(u64 *const pTime)
{
   register u64 xtime;
   asm volatile ("rdtsc" : "=A" (*ptime));
}


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