GCC proposal for "@" asm constraint

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:05AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:32:16PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Wrong: it's really loading the _address_.
> [...]
> >  80483f5:       a1 a4 95 04 08          mov    0x80495a4,%eax
> >                    ^^^^^^^^^^^                 ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> No, that's an absolute memory load.  If we were loading
> the address, there'd be a '$' before that number.

I see. So Jamie was right and we reproduced a case of miscompilation.

Andrea