Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7602] New: Failure on compilation: include/asm/bitops.h:122: error: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' in nfs_access_add_cache()

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 17:22:27 EST



>
> static __inline__ int __test_and_set_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr)
> {
> int oldbit;
>
> __asm__(
> "btsl %2,%1\n\tsbbl %0,%0"
> :"=r" (oldbit),"+m" (ADDR)
> :"dIr" (nr));
> return oldbit;
> }
>
> explodes with gcc-3.4.4.

Known issue. The new form is correct and needed, but the old gcc doesn't accept
it. I haven't gotten a form that is both and correct and works on the old compiler
out of the gcc hackers I asked.

Probably need to #ifdef it.

-Andi
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