Re: [avr-gcc-list] error in inline assembler docu found at: http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/inline_asm.html

[Joerg Wunsch]

Johannes Krude <address@hidden> wrote:

> The documentation stats: "The linefeed and tab characters will make
> the=20 assembler listing generated by the compiler more readable",
> this is far fro= m=20 the truth, instead the compiler relies on the
> linefeed and tabs. If you omi= t=20 the linefeeds and tabs the
> compiler complains about: "garbage at end of lin= e"

Please write a bug report at

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=avr-libc

> There is an important point missing about the input and output
> operands. IO= =20 registers always have to be input operands, even
> if you only use them as=20 output. Otherwise the compiler wails
> about: "invalid lvalue in asm statemen= t"

This is not a bug in the documentation, but I agree the documentation
might be clearer on this.  If you've got a suggestion for a better
description, feel free to write another bug report.

The point is, the terms "input" and "output" refer to the
communication between the surrounding compiler environment and the
inline assembly statement, so they tell what goes *into* the inline
asm statement, and what is *returned* from it into its environment.
The address of an IO port is an input to the inline asm statement,
even if the IO port outputs something from the MCU to the outside
world -- this MCU output operation doesn't make it return anything
from the inline asm to its environment.

> I don't read tihs list so don't expect me to answer if you don't
> write to m= e=20 personaly.

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