Re: [llvmlinux] [PATCH] [RFC] [X86] Fix a compilation issue withclang.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 29 2013 - 14:18:59 EST


On 08/29/2013 11:11 AM, Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
> On Thursday 29 August 2013 11:11:32 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 08/29/2013 11:00 AM, Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
>>>> You just changed the sematics of the _ASM_* macros... that doesn't seem
>>>> like a great idea. It's probably okay for the registers, but still...
>>>
>>> Well, we followed your idea for the _ASM_DX macros as you mentioned them
>>> earlier.
>>
>> We can probably do this, because register names are usually not assumed
>> to have spaces around them... so it's probably okay. Definitely a lot
>> less ugly than the rest. That being said, if we're going to fix these
>> macros, we should also fix another piece of drain bramage:
>>
>> ALL instances of these have a % prepended. The % should be part of the
>> macro.
>
> Ok, I can make a follow-up patch for the above change. Give me a bit to cook
> it up.
>

Actually, it might be a bad idea. In C embedded assembly we sometimes
need %% and sometimes %.

-hpa


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