Partial registers in asm constraints/clobber lists

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Mon May 21 18:56:00 GMT 2012


Jeremy Hall <gcc.hall@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it safe to mention part of a register only in a constraint or clobber list?

Yes.

> Does gcc treat registers as a whole so that a mention of any part of a
> register refers to all of it (e.g. register "a").

Yes.

Ian



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