On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:07:21AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > Over the years there has been a great deal of traffic on these lists > caused by misunderstandings of GCC's inline assembler. That's partly > because it's inherently tricky, but the existing documentation needs > to be improved. > > dw <limegreenso...@yahoo.com> has done a fairly thorough reworking of > the documentation. I've helped a bit. > > Section 6.41 of the GCC manual has been rewritten. It has become: > > 6.41 How to Use Inline Assembly Language in C Code > 6.41.1 Basic Asm - Assembler Instructions with No Operands > 6.41.2 Extended Asm - Assembler Instructions with C Expression Operands > > We could simply post the patch to GCC-patches and have at it, but I > think it's better to discuss the document here first. You can read it > at
This documentation looks like a huge improvement. As the discussion here seems to have stalled, perhaps it is time to propose the patch to gcc-patches? I'm certainly keen to see this make it to trunk, the increase in clarity is substantial. Thanks, James
