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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> It would be nice to have a way to declare an asm like "pure" not
> "const", so that it's allowed to read memory but multiple calls can be
> eliminated; I don't know of a way to express that.
> 

Just specify memory input operands.

	-hpa