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Message-ID: <497A2BC7.5030107@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:42:47 +0200
From: Török Edwin <edwintorok@...il.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev@...uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: inline asm semantics: output constraint width smaller than input
On 2009-01-23 20:52, Török Edwin wrote:
> On 2009-01-23 20:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> * Török Edwin <edwintorok@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Having said that, llvm-gcc is not yet able to compile the full Linux
>>> kernel on its own [for example the boot code, due to asm(".code16gcc")],
>>> but with LLVM 2.4 it was possible to build "arch=UM", and "arch=X86" (by
>>> using gcc to build the bootcode). I'd like LLVM 2.5 to be able to build
>>> the kernel, so I'll file bugs for llvm/kernel depending on where the
>>> problem is.
>>>
>>>
>> Could we get LLVM folks on the Cc: and see how difficult it would be to
>> fix this on the LLVM side? Asm constraints are used all around the place
>> and different input/output types are very common.
>>
>
>
Hi Ingo,
Could you describe what are the semantics you need for inline asm
constraints in the kernel?
GCC doesn't document all the corner cases, and defining inline asm =
"whatever gcc accepts" is not very useful for LLVM.
So far we've encountered the problem with input/output operand tied to
same register, but having different widths:
- output wider than input, both integers: do you need this case?
- output narrower than input, both integers: this is the common case, right?
- can it also happen that input is pointer, output is integer of
different width?
- .. any other mismatches?
Could you also describe why put_user/the example from pcbios needs the
different widths?
Best regards,
--Edwin
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