It was hard to isolate, but now I think the testcase is clear. The following program doesn't compile without any clear justification:
with System.Machine_Code; with Interfaces; Use Interfaces; procedure Asm_Bug is use System.Machine_Code; type My_Type is range 0 .. 2**32 - 1; for My_Type'Size use 32; CMT : constant My_Type := 1; CU32 : constant Unsigned_32 := 1; begin Asm ("nop", Inputs => Unsigned_32'Asm_Input ("a", CU32 + 1)); Asm ("nop", Inputs => My_Type'Asm_Input ("a", CMT)); Asm ("nop", Inputs => My_Type'Asm_Input ("a", CMT + 1)); end Asm_Bug; The firsts two inline Asm compile as expected, but the third get the following error: asm_bug.adb: In function `Asm_Bug': asm_bug.adb:15: error: impossible register constraint in `asm' asm_bug.adb:16: confused by earlier errors, bailing out But this code seems correct to me. If the firsts two lines are corrects the last must also be correct. GCC version: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux/3.4.0/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal, objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.4 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --enable-threads=posix --without-included-gettext --program-suffix=-3.4 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-werror i486-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.0 (Debian 20040516) Regards, JC -- Summary: Strange behaviour for inline assembler input constraint Product: gcc Version: 3.4.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: ada AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: jc at apinc dot org CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC build triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15896