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Re: Single asm instruction

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:21:21PM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> > And a notice: you don't need gcc to optimize assembly, because you only
> > write code in assembly if you already optimized it better than gcc can
> > ever do.
> 
> ... Or you need a specific opcode (e.g. wbinvd, rdtsc etc).

And sure gcc can't optimize instructions it knows nothing about ;-).

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