Re: [PATCH] 2.1.131: i386 tweak to switch_to()
MANIK RAINA (rmanik@novell.com)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:44:55 +0530 (IST)
>
> "cc" is condition flags; "memory" is clobbered each time you write to
> something that is not in the arguments. Clobbering "memory" is used to
> singal gcc that it can't assume that memory is unchanged (i.e., reuse a
> value in memory that just happens to be in a register), and also has the
> side effect that it acts as a barrier: No reordering of instructions will
> move stuff over the asm() because of the above.
further , memory as the cloberred operand means all registers are
assumed cloberred and their contents are assumed to be unreliable .
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