Re: icc vs. gcc-style asm blocks ... maybe the twain can meet?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Hmm ... wait a second. The main collection of asm blocks in s_lock.h
>>> believes that Intel's compiler will take gcc-style asm without any help:
>
>> The 2005 block seems to have been the result of this thread:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/200503090429(dot)j294TlG10498(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us
>> That thread seems pretty clear about asm() not working in that
>> poster's environment.
>
> See followups --- the true story is that icc can do asm blocks on
> x86[_64], but not ia64. I've now documented this accurately, and
> fixed various places that were confused about it.

Thanks.

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