Re: i386 flags register clober in inline assembly

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>
> Actually the main dificulty I see is storing cc0 to variable.  CC0 is hard
> register and pretty strange one - you can't move it, you can't spill.

Well, you _can_ spill it, but you need to use "pushfl/popfl" to
spill/restore.

Also, if you're clever you don't spill cc0 itself, but the _comparison_,
ie if you need to spill in

	asm(.. "=cc" (cc0))
	if (cc0 > 0)

a sufficiently clever spill-engine would spill not eflags,  but instead
spill "cc0 > 0", which it can do with the "seq" expansions..

gcc already does know about "store-flag" instructions, although I
certainly agree that the _patterns_ of usage may end up being very
different than existing conditional comparisons..

		Linus