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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/8] i386: bitops: Kill needless usage of __asm__ __volatile__
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?

J
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