[LLVMdev] [RFC] Add compiler scheduling barriers

[Tim Northover]

Hi Yi,

On 3 July 2014 12:04, Yi Kong <kongy.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> After some internal discussions, we concluded that moving
> non-memory-access and non-side-effect instructions around memory
> barrier intrinsics is fine in almost any typical situation. In the
> rare occasions where reordering is undesirable, the programmer should
> use inline asm instead.

I'm curious now. What situations did you come up with where inline asm
would be needed?

Cheers.

Tim.