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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
To: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@hypersurf•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: inline assembly
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:45:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4846F0C0.80808@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4846EEAE.3000908@hypersurf.com>

Kevin Diggs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     When doing inline assembly, is there a way to get the compiler to 
> assign "extra" (one not specified for inputs and outputs) registers? In 
> the following:
> 
>                 __asm__ __volatile__ (
>                         "addi 5,%1,-1\n"
>                         "andc 5,%1,5\n"
>                         "cntlzw 5,5\n"
>                         "subfic %0,5,31":
>                         "=r"(j):
>                         "r"(i)
>                 );
> 
> Can I get the compiler to choose a register for r5?

Yes, like this:

int tmp;

asm volatile("addi %1, %2, -1;"
              "andc %1, %2, %1;"
              "cntlzw %1, %1;"
              "subfic %0, %1, 31" : "=r" (j), "=&r" (tmp) : "r" (i));

However, it'd be better to let the compiler do more, by just using the 
existing cntlzw() function.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04 19:36 inline assembly Kevin Diggs
2008-06-04 19:45 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-06-05 10:44   ` David Howells
2008-06-05 16:52     ` Scott Wood

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