Re: Why avoid inline assembly ?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

Sometimes it makes no sense to inline code (for example when you call
it via a function pointer, or it is initialization stuff that only runs
once).

We do use __volatile __asm inline stuff, but only where it makes sense
and the asm code is very, very short - as otherwise it gets unreadable
imediately.

When pcc initially came up and had not yet support for all of the gcc
asm extension/syntax, the tree was pruned a bit - nowadays it shouldn't
matter (besides above stylistic choices).

Martin