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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:36:05 -0400
From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:37:28PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> In other words, if you know the push sequence of your C compiler's
> function calls, you don't need asm("");.

You are very much forgetting _inline_ asm.  And if you think that's
unimportant for performance, well, as Al would say, go back playing
with Hurd.

  OG.

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