[cfe-dev] AT&T inline assembly macros

[James Dennett]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Mark Schimmel
<Mark.Schimmel at synopsys.com> wrote:
> I would like to add support for AT&T style ASM macros to Clang, but
> this will be my first experience changing Clang.

The first question I have is: why?  Really -- why is adding this
feature valuable enough to justify the effort and the extra complexity
in Clang?  What are the benefits, and the other downsides?

I don't know the answers, or whether it's worthwhile, but the bar to
adding such a feature should be reasonably high if it's expected to be
included in mainline Clang (rather than in a private fork), including
having confidence that there are (and will continue to be) qualified
maintainers.

-- James