On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:43:54PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This is so that use of symbols referenced in these asm()-s can be
> properly tracked by the compiler, just like is the case for all other
> asm()-s. I'm particularly looking forward to use this in the Linux
> kernel. It is certainly not very useful in PIC code, at least not with
> some extra care.
Even in PIC code it can be useful to have toplevel asm like
asm ("..." : : "i" (offsetof (struct S, field)), "i" (some_enum_value), "i"
(sizeof (struct S)));
etc.
Jakub
