I like your assessment of the situation. In general there should be options to invoke any of several plans for 'special processing' and especially the 'hands off' option.
Implementing the 'do nothing' option ought to be rather simple except for parsing the relevant keyword or whatever invokes it. On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 18:39 Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess the question is, under what circumstances does it make sense to say > "You, the programmer, went to the trouble of including inline assembler, > and > I, the compiler, think you shouldn't have done so?" That's where I keep > getting blocked. I > > It seems like one thing to say "You seem to have assigned this C variable > that's never referenced again", and quite another to say "You went to a lot > of trouble to do something, but I'm going to kill it because I don't > understand it". > > At a minimum, there should be an option to say "Leave the asm alone". >
