Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:40:52 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] i386: bitops: Kill needless usage of __asm__ __volatile__ |
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Trent Piepho wrote: > gcc also tries to count the number of instructions, to guess how large in > bytes the asm block is, as it could make a difference for near vs short > jumps, etc. >
How does it do that? By looking for \n, ';', etc?
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