Re: [PATCH 6/8] i386: bitops: Don't mark memory as clobberedunnecessarily

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Hmm. I really think you should take this up with the gcc people. That 
> looks like a gcc bug - because there really is nothing that guarantees 
> that the asm doesn't change the array that "x" points to, and the asm 
> clearly talks about clobbering memory.

Actually, I take that back. I think gcc does the right thing, and yes, 
it's explained by the memory clobber being just a blind "write to memory" 
rather than read memory. My bad.

It does leave us with very few ways of saying that an asm can *read* 
memory, and so it might be good to have it clarified that "volatile" 
implies that (at least with the memory clobber).

Your examples are good, I think.

		Linus
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