Re: gnat/ppc and a32 blt transfers

["David Thompson" <david.thompson1@worldnet.att.net>]

Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote :
...
> the Ada RM specifically recognizes that a compiler must provide
> an appropriate mechanism for insertion of machine language
> statements (assuming the systems programming annex is
> implemented). Of course these mechanisms are not portable
...
> There is no such requirement in C as far as I remember (I do
> not have the C standard at hand to double check).

C (ISO 9899:1999) does not require anything, although in
_informative_ Annex J Portability Considerations it lists
asm ( string-literal ); as a common extension.

C++ (ISO 14882:1998) specifies that same keyword and syntax
as standard, with the contents of the string (that is, the actual
assembler syntax) implementation defined; an implementation
defining that the contents are ignored would presumably be legal.

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