On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Greg Hughes wrote:
>Inline assembly experts,
>
>I've been palying with RedHat 7.1 Beta. This ships with gcc 2.96.77,
>which is much better than the 2.96 bundled with RedHat 7.0. This
>compiler can build the xc tree from the trunk, but it chokes trying to
>build the mesa-3-5-branch. It doesn't like the COPY_DWORDS macro in the
>r128, radeon, and i810 directories.
>
>
>#define COPY_DWORDS( j, vb, vertsize, v ) \
> __asm__ __volatile__( "rep ; movsl" \
> : "=%c" (j), "=D" (vb) \
> : "0" (vertsize), \
> "D" ((long)vb), \
> "S" ((long)v) \
> : "esi" )
>
>The error is:
>
> Can't find a register in class `SIREG' while reloading `asm'.
>
>My question: Is this a compiler defect, or is the compiler just being
>more strict?
gcc-2.96-80.src.rpm is our latest. I dunno if it changes
anything or not. I'm inquiring about this internally and if i
find out anything I'll post it here.
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