Re: xchg and GCC's optimisation:-(

From: Momchil Velikov (velco@fadata.bg)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 08:18:45 EST


>>>>> "Jan-Benedict" == Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@microdata-pos.de> writes:
Jan-Benedict> I've looked at ./include/asm-i386/system.h which does some black
Jan-Benedict> magic with it, and I don't really understand that. However, the
Jan-Benedict> result is that the xchg gets optimized away, rendering at least

Can you try with this patch ...

--- system.h.orig.0 Mon Dec 17 15:03:38 2001
+++ system.h Mon Dec 17 15:16:58 2001
@@ -205,21 +205,15 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsig
         switch (size) {
                 case 1:
                         __asm__ __volatile__("xchgb %b0,%1"
- :"=q" (x)
- :"m" (*__xg(ptr)), "0" (x)
- :"memory");
+ :"+q" (x),"=m" (*__xg(ptr)));
                         break;
                 case 2:
                         __asm__ __volatile__("xchgw %w0,%1"
- :"=r" (x)
- :"m" (*__xg(ptr)), "0" (x)
- :"memory");
+ :"+r" (x),"=m" (*__xg(ptr)));
                         break;
                 case 4:
                         __asm__ __volatile__("xchgl %0,%1"
- :"=r" (x)
- :"m" (*__xg(ptr)), "0" (x)
- :"memory");
+ :"+r" (x), "=m" (*__xg(ptr)));
                         break;
         }
         return x;
-
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