[cfe-dev] [cfe-commits] [PATCH] Asm multiple alternative constraints revisited

[Eli Friedman]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:54 PM, John Thompson
<john.thompson.jtsoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eli,
>
> So, then this is a problem with the back-end, right?  Do you agree that the
> back end is a better place to try to choose constraints, given that it knows
> better which things are already in registers and so forth?

Yes, it would fit more naturally there... but I'm not sure a proposal
to make inline asm in the backend more complicated will be greeted
with much enthusiasm.  If you're really interested in pursuing that
path, though, ask on llvmdev first.

-Eli