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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
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dewar@gnat.com writes:

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| I also find that introducing asm for this purpose is unnecessarily
| non-portable.  Yes in some cases, we are talking about very target
| specific code, but in other cases the code is not so target
| specific, and it is desirable to stay within C if possible.

Isn't the incriminated construct already outside of C and non-portable?

-- Gaby
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