On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:48:13 -0400 Paul Koning <paul_kon...@dell.com> wrote:
> Relax? Weird. "Pause" is just as weird. It might be an ia32 instruction, > so as an ia32 builtin it is a reasonable name But if you want a generic > builtin, you need a name that actually has some plausible connection with > what it does, and neither "pause" nor "relax" do that. I still think that having a builtin which do a "compiler flush" that is which spill all registers to memory is useful, eg a builtin_compiler_flush() And I even think there is another reason to use it. If you are debugging a program compiled with -O2 -g, and if you know where there could be a bug or a fault, temporarily adding a call to that builtin_compiler_flush () would probably help the gdb debugger a lot. Regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
