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Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:41:46 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To:     Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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Hi!

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 02:28:37PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> If you need a specific instruction emitted, you need a compiler
> intrinsic or inline assembly.

Not an intrinsic.  Builtins (like almost all other code) do not say
"generate this particular machine code", they say "generate code that
does <this>".  That is one reason why builtins are more powerful than
inline assembler (another related reason is that they tell the compiler
exactly what behaviour is expected).

> I don't think it's possible to piggy-back this on something else.

Unless we get a description of what this does in term of language
semantics (instead of generated machine code), there is no hope, even.


Segher