Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb: Merkey's Linux Kernel Debugger 2.6.27-rc4released

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 17:25:05 EST




On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> "asm volatile" also has no effect on the ordering of the asm with
> respect to other code; you must use constraints to do that.

Well, the gcc docs at _used_ to say that volatile asms are not moved
around "significantly". They've removed that.

Linus
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