From 07132b499f6b149c54e117b9b60ba11bbb0ff72c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Crichton Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:08:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add a link to LLVM's new inline assembly docs Hot off the press, we've now got some nice documentation to link to in LLVM officially! --- src/doc/trpl/inline-assembly.md | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/inline-assembly.md b/src/doc/trpl/inline-assembly.md index 4d9166d63bfb..7659c4ff88da 100644 --- a/src/doc/trpl/inline-assembly.md +++ b/src/doc/trpl/inline-assembly.md @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ fn main() { If you would like to use real operands in this position, however, you are required to put curly braces `{}` around the register that you want, and you are required to put the specific size of the -operand. This is useful for very low level programming, where +operand. This is useful for very low level programming, where which register you use is important: ```rust @@ -166,3 +166,12 @@ unsafe { println!("eax is currently {}", result); # } ``` + +## More Information + +The current implementation of the `asm!` macro is a direct binding to [LLVM's +inline assembler expressions][llvm-docs], so be sure to check out [their +documentation as well][llvm-docs] for more information about clobbers, +constraints, etc. + +[llvm-docs]: http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#inline-assembler-expressions