[LLVMdev] leveraging back-end C compiler features in the gcc-based front-end

Anton Korobeynikov anton at korobeynikov.info
Mon May 4 01:22:40 PDT 2009


Hello, Bob

> supports a number of (processor-specific) intrinsics that expose much of the
> underlying CPU architecture directly to the C programmer -- registers,
> pseudo-functions for enabling/disabling interrupts and reading/writing
> status bits, etc.
Nothing special here. All this can be implemented either via inline
assembler and/or via register-tied variables. I have no idea whether
mspgcc supports this, but this certainly possible.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University



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