[cfe-dev] Syntax for asm in clang

[David Wohlferd]

I'm working with some code that has inline asm.  While it compiles and 
runs correctly with gcc (4.9), clang (3.5.0) is giving compile errors.  
No doubt this is due to variations in what is supported in gcc and clang 
for the very compiler-specific asm command.

I was hoping to resolve this myself by looking at the docs, but I'm not 
finding anything that details what clang's asm supports (other than 
saying "highly compatible" with GCC).  Does anyone have a link?

Assuming I didn't just miss where this is doc'ed, perhaps someone with 
more clang experience can suggest how to emulate gcc's %z modifier (see 
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#i386Operandmodifiers).

In short, %z0 is expanded in inline asm strings to one of b/w/l/q (byte, 
word, long, qword), depending on the type of parameter 0. This is useful 
for cases where the type cannot be inferred from the operators, for 
example "rep stos%z0".  While there are ways to do this manually, I'm 
hoping clang provides something (macro? intrinsic? different modifier?) 
similar to gcc.

Thanks,
dw