[RFD] Using the 'memory constraint' trick to avoid memory clobber doesn't work

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, David Wohlferd wrote:
> Sorry for the (very) delayed response.  I'm still looking for feedback here so
> I can fix the docs.

Thank you for your diligence.

> As I said before, triggering a full memory clobber for anything over 16 bytes
> (and most sizes under 16 bytes) makes this feature all but useless.  So if
> that's really what's happening, we need to decide what to do next:
>
> 1) Can this be "fixed?"
> 2) Do we want to doc the current behavior?
> 3) Or do we just remove this section?
>
> I think it could be a nice performance win for inline asm if it could be made
> to work right, but I have no idea what might be involved in that.  Failing
> that, I guess if it doesn't work and isn't going to work, I'd recommend
> removing the text for this feature.
>
> Since all 3 suggestions require a doc change, I'll just say that I'm prepared
> to start work on the doc patch as soon as someone lets me know what the plan
> is.
>
> Richard?  Hans-Peter?  Your thoughts?

I've forgot if someone mentioned whether we have a test-case in
our test-suite for this feature.  If we don't, then 3; removal.
If we do, I guess it's flawed or at least not agreeing with the
documentation?  Then it *might* be worth the effort fixing that
and additional test-coverage (depending on the person stepping
up...) but 3 is IMHO still an arguably sane option.

brgds, H-P