[PATCH] sys/io.h and g++

[Ulrich Drepper]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> The syntax for the asm statement does not contain `::'.

Right.  And therefore gcc has to interpert :: as two :.

> Check the facts!  All the standard allows is a string literal.  Not any
> thing remotely that looks like `::'.

You are really trying hard to ignore what I say.  The goal is to have
compatibility with GNU C.  If GNU C extends the syntax to allow the :
separated expressions then the goal is that GNU C++ does the same.  If
it's not doing this the whole effort is failing.

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