Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Hmm ... wait a second. The main collection of asm blocks in s_lock.h
>> believes that Intel's compiler will take gcc-style asm without any help:
> The 2005 block seems to have been the result of this thread:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/200503090429(dot)j294TlG10498(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us
> That thread seems pretty clear about asm() not working in that
> poster's environment.
See followups --- the true story is that icc can do asm blocks on
x86[_64], but not ia64. I've now documented this accurately, and
fixed various places that were confused about it.
regards, tom lane