Re: bad register name `%sil'

[Dave Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     It's a bug in our inline assembly.  %sil is not an AMD64 register per
>     say, it's simply GCC trying to access the 'low byte' of the %si
>     register.  This is only legal to do on %ax, %bx, %cx, or %dx.  So 
>     FreeBSD's solution is the correct one.

Hrm.  It definitely seems odd for gcc to fail in such a way; after all, 
it's %al, not %axl.  Ah, well.