On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Timshel Knoll wrote: > > If the assembly code is not position-independent, you already have a > > problem here. If it is, then gcc is expected to regenerate the PIC > > register after the assembly section.
> Last time I checked, it didn't. This seems to be a bug in GCC, and I had > a number of problems building shared versions of my libparted package, > as it used a Linux syscall to llseek ... (for before the glibc2.1 64 bit > lseek()). Hmm, it is a bug in gcc if the register was correctly listed in the clobber list or the asm statement was volatile (either explicitly or implicitly by specifying a parameter list that suggests this asm statement has side effects (like having no return value). Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: A319 A60F 20F6 C8A4 3C86 54B4 99CD AC6E 79D1 B1E7 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
