http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47602
--- Comment #3 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-02-03 23:52:33 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > No, this is not a duplicate of PR 8340. I am suggesting a different way of > handling the situation, which would still produce correct code. I am > suggesting that when an asm clobbers the PIC register, that we explicitly save > and restore the register around the asm. The reason why it is a dup is that we decided we did not want to fix it that way. If you want to reopen the old bug that is a different story.