On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
[SNIPPED...]
> > It was supposed to force x, which may be cached in a register,
> > to be written to memory __now__. It doesn't seem to do anything.
> > I think FORCE_TO_MEM() needs to claim that it uses most all the
> > registers. That will make sure that any register values get
> > written to their final memory locations.
>
> If so it wouldn't be inside the #APP/#NOAPP markers. You didn't answer
> my other question: was X in memory at the time?
It was in %ebx register and didn't go back to NNN(%esp) where
it came from. Like I said, it did do anything.
>
> You should be using something like __asm__ __volatile__ (""::"m"(x))
> anyway.
>
Yep. Probably.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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