http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55131
Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Component|c++ |inline-asm Version|unknown |4.7.0 Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-10-30 02:28:31 UTC --- This is not a bug. The produced assembly looks like: movl 8(%ebp), %edi # %1 movl 12(%ebp), %esi# %2 movl 0(%esi), %eax movl 4(%esi), %edx movl (%ecx), %ebx# %3 movl (%eax), %ecx# %4 By the time the last statement happens, eax has already been clobbered. You never said you are clobber eax in the inline-asm so it chose the 4th operand as being eax. You were getting lucky in 3.4.6 with the inline-asm really, I don't see why you don't use the __sync_* (or even better the __atomic_*) builtins for doing the compare and swap?