Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21983; Tue, 19 Dec 95 14:51:22 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23354; Tue, 19 Dec 95 14:51:23 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA09436; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:10:21 -0500 Received: from jekyll.piermont.com by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA09296 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 13:51:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (perry@localhost) by jekyll.piermont.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA24459; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 13:51:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199512191851.NAA24459@jekyll.piermont.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jekyll.piermont.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Jason Thorpe Cc: netbsd-developers@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 pio.h 2.7.2 lossage In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:24:54 PST." <199512191824.KAA00834@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Reply-To: perry@piermont.com X-Reposting-Policy: redistribute only with permission Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 13:51:05 -0500 From: "Perry E. Metzger" Sender: owner-netbsd-developers@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: first-class X-Loop: netbsd-developers@NetBSD.ORG Jason Thorpe writes: > On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 13:20:53 -0500 > "Perry E. Metzger" 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.) Niklas Hallqvist send-pr'ed a small fix for that, although the best and most general fix is to import the new libg++ > As for the asm() stuff, I suppose I could pull out my gcc manual. But, > then again, anyone could. I pulled out by gcc manual, and I couldn't make heads or tails of the problem, but then, I'm not sufficiently wizardly when it comes to this stuff. Perry