[FFmpeg-devel] Inline ASM vs. Intrinsics

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:22:32AM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:06:11PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Exactly. I wrongfully assumed that "register" keywork was honnored
> > with xmm/mm intrinsics, but I was wrong. It's simply ignored by ICC. I
> > don't know about GCC.
> 
> According to its documentation gcc also ignores the "register" storage
> class specifier, except in a few special cases:
> 
>   - when using asm in a declaration to explicitly specify which register.
>   - when using -O0.
>   - when using setjmp on certain rare target platforms.
> 
> Aside: on IA64 icc supports only intrinsics -- no inline assembly.  On
> the one hand IA64 assembly is so painful that you'd rarely want to
> write it manually anyway; but the downside is that the intrinsics

IA64 is a complete failure with and without intrinsics

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