question regarding asm()

[Michael Meissner]

Bernd Schmidt writes:
| > Yup.  I wouldn't be suprised if this ends up being similar to the problems
| > with passing args in registers for SMALL_REGISTER_CLASS machines.
| 
| I'd like to mention here that the reload patch I posted here a few months ago
| does not only cause better code to be generated on the x86, it should also
| solve these problems by taking hard register lifetimes into account and only
| using free hard regs for reloads.

I hoped to start looking at this.  I am concerned about breaking the
Linux kernel due to changing semantics.  Have you considered changing
it so it still has the same semantics regarding input/output reloads?

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