Re: GCC proposal for "@" asm constraint

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 13:28:28 EST


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
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