Re: bad register name `%sil'

[Dave Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> Is there anyone who knows how that thread in gcc-bugs list came to
> a conclusion? At the end of the above log, someone named Richard Henderson
> insists that the problem is in the sample code rather than in gcc, and that
> using "=q" instead of "=r" solves the problem. It seems to me that that's
> gcc team's decision, rather than fixing gcc by disabling the use of these
> registers for IA32 platforms, not to mention that the same change has been
> applied to atomic.h in FreeBSD-CURRENT months ago.

I don't follow gcc-bugs, but I think he was attempting to address the 
specific problem rather than the larger "gcc is choosing phantom 
registers" issue.

If you can narrow down the problem to a small sample, someone on the gcc 
team would probably be interested.

Dave