Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

[David S. Miller]

H. Peter Anvin writes:
 > Believe it or not, that's actually a fairly simple part of the whole
 > machinery.  All you need for that is to maintain a call/return stack
 > in the front end of the pipe.

I understand how RAS stacks work, I even mentioned them in another
posting of this thread :-)  It's the CALL _itself_ that I'm talking
about.

Later,
David S. Miller
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