Re: Partial patch for checksum.c / egcs...

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
14 Dec 1998 11:56:41 +0100


Jason Riedy <ejr@cise.ufl.edu> writes:

|> Appended is a partial patch for checksum.c and egcs. It works
|> with 686. It doesn't even compile for non-686. Egcs swears there
|> are more than ten asm operands in csum_partial_copy_generic. For
|> the life of me, I count only eight. Sure enough, if I remove one,
|> it compiles (and is broken).

Please note that + is just a shorthand, the compiler will expand it into
two asm operands, which are then subject to the limitation.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
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