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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.1.131: i386 tweak to switch_to()
     > 
    > "cc" is condition flags; "memory" is clobbered each time you write to
    > something that is not in the arguments. Clobbering "memory" is used to
    > singal gcc that it can't assume that memory is unchanged (i.e., reuse a
    > value in memory that just happens to be in a register), and also has the
    > side effect that it acts as a barrier: No reordering of instructions will
    > move stuff over the asm() because of the above.


    further , memory as the cloberred operand means all registers are
    assumed cloberred and their contents are assumed to be unreliable .



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