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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Agreed.  It's just a bit ugly that the "m" in "rm" has a different 
> meaning than just "m".

Oh?  What does the "m" in "m,m" mean then?

(I don't have GCC 3.3 to try it here).

Sometimes that's useful, when used with differing multi-alternative
constraints on the other arguments, and 99% of the time you _do_ want
the "m,m" constraint to use the actual lvalue's address just like "m".

-- Jamie