Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>>
>>
>>#define __nop() asm volatile("")
>
> and if you want to pass arguments, to guarantee that no optimization will
> be done, even on loop constants ?
> eg:
> for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
> j++;
> __nop();
> }
>
> -> might be optimized this way :
> j = N;
> for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
> __nop();
> }
>
> Perhaps using a volatile for j ?
>
OK, what are you trying to accomplish by this?
But if you wanted to, you could do:
for ( i = 0 ; i < N ; i++ ) {
j++;
asm volatile("" : "=g" (j));
}
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