On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, David Wohlferd wrote: > Sorry for the (very) delayed response. I'm still looking for feedback here so > I can fix the docs.
Thank you for your diligence. > As I said before, triggering a full memory clobber for anything over 16 bytes > (and most sizes under 16 bytes) makes this feature all but useless. So if > that's really what's happening, we need to decide what to do next: > > 1) Can this be "fixed?" > 2) Do we want to doc the current behavior? > 3) Or do we just remove this section? > > I think it could be a nice performance win for inline asm if it could be made > to work right, but I have no idea what might be involved in that. Failing > that, I guess if it doesn't work and isn't going to work, I'd recommend > removing the text for this feature. > > Since all 3 suggestions require a doc change, I'll just say that I'm prepared > to start work on the doc patch as soon as someone lets me know what the plan > is. > > Richard? Hans-Peter? Your thoughts? I've forgot if someone mentioned whether we have a test-case in our test-suite for this feature. If we don't, then 3; removal. If we do, I guess it's flawed or at least not agreeing with the documentation? Then it *might* be worth the effort fixing that and additional test-coverage (depending on the person stepping up...) but 3 is IMHO still an arguably sane option. brgds, H-P
