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From: Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
To: Kristis Makris <kristis.makris@asu.edu>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: noreturn function attribute and ret asm instruction
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 03:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063416307.1007.15.camel@leaf.tuliptree.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063386860.3208.7.camel@syd.monet.net>

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:14, Kristis Makris wrote:
> Here %eax is used and it's previous value is not preserved. Again
> conceptually I should be able to write in a high-level language such as
> C with the option to tell gcc to preserve the registers it will end up
> using on its own.

You haven't given any justification for why you want this feature.  We
aren't going to add features that have no known use.  Maybe if you
explained what you are trying to do, we could offer a better
alternative, or give reasons why what you want to do won't work.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-13  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-23 16:33 Kristis Makris
2003-08-25 20:30 ` Jim Wilson
2003-08-26  6:51   ` Kristis Makris
2003-08-26  7:05     ` Zack Weinberg
2003-08-30  0:09       ` Kristis Makris
2003-09-02 21:17         ` Jim Wilson
2003-09-02 21:57           ` Zack Weinberg
2003-09-02 22:02             ` Joseph S. Myers
2003-09-03  2:19             ` Kristis Makris
2003-09-12  1:29             ` Kristis Makris
2003-09-12  7:10               ` Jim Wilson
2003-09-12 18:16                 ` Kristis Makris
2003-09-13  3:41                   ` Jim Wilson [this message]
2003-09-14 17:31                     ` Kristis Makris
2003-09-14 20:22                       ` Jim Wilson
2003-09-15 18:21                         ` Kristis Makris
2003-09-15 20:15                           ` Jim Wilson
2003-10-01  5:59           ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-10-01  7:00             ` Zack Weinberg
2003-10-01  7:26               ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-10-01 16:21               ` Richard Henderson
2003-10-01 17:57                 ` Zack Weinberg

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