On 05/26/2011 08:37 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > 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()
I don't see how it can do that without causing reload failures. You'd have to be very careful somehow to identify user variables. Andrew.
