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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 13:20:53 -0500 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > However, we *should* be using it. It looks like a lot of the bugs are
 > pretty simple if one actually understands things like the constraint
 > syntax used by gcc's extended asm's, which I don't... Sigh...

Well, we should, but we can't in the general case, anyhow.  I.e. out 
current libg++ doesn't build with it, for certain.  (At least, not on my 
m68k platforms.)

As for the asm() stuff, I suppose I could pull out my gcc manual.  But, 
then again, anyone could.

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