Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:51:00 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: pgcc and kernels.. Message-ID: <199604060951.TAA20678@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>at which point the following define in machine/clock.h is flagged
>as in error:
>
>#define I586_CYCLECTR(x) \
> __asm __volatile(".byte 0x0f, 0x31" : "=A" (x))
>I've never been all that comfortable with gcc's asm() syntax, seeing
>as I use it pretty much never, so I'm not sure who's "right" here - us
>or gcc?
gcc is always right. pgcc != gcc. The "A" regclass was added on 14
June 1994 and released in 2.6.0 according ChangeLog.9. Perhaps the
relevant parts of pgcc are older than that? I think the Pentium
parts are mostly the old Intel work which was done long before that.
Bruce
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