> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:15:48PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> > > The following program cannot be compiled with gcc 2.95.3, because the
> > > offset is out of range (I consider it a bug in gcc -- it should
> > > and load a temporary register itself and pass it appropriately as %0,
> > I think gcc can be forgiven for not allocating a temporary,
> > given the ".set noat"...
> Except, of course, gcc doesn't even know the set noat is there. It
> doesn't parse the interior of asm() statements.
Fair enough. It was an offhand remark. But seriously, what does
the "R" constraint mean here? The only documentation I've got
says that "Q" through "U" are reserved for use with EXTRA_CONSTRAINT
in machine-dependent definitions of arbitrary operand types. When
and where does it get bound for MIPS gcc, and what is it supposed
to mean? If I compile this kind of fragment using a "m" constraint,
it seems to do the right thing, at least on my archaic native compiler.