From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:25:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block-sha1: Windows declares ntohl() in winsock2.h
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908181316330.3158@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908181607240.6044@xanadu.home>



On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> Does it really implement the gcc inline assembly syntax?

A fair number of compilers do. The Intel compiler does too.

The reason? The gcc inline asm is as close to a standard there is, and is 
fairly expressive without being the mess that is MSC. So if you do inline 
asm at all (and considering the target market for a C compiler, most do), 
gcc asm is a good thing to aim for.

			Linus