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...ted are worth it. > 4. How do we distinguish the assembly dialect at the IR level? > I also agree about adding a new attribute to the IR. I'm not familiar with how IR metadata works, but instead of having specific syntax attributes ( iasyntaxatt), it would be cleaner to have a generic asmsyntax attribute that could take att/intel values. 5. How should the inline asm be represented in the AST? > > This is largely an open question and I'm still in the process of > familiarize > myself with the frontend. Doing this in a sane way is going to be > critical for > provid...

All, The purpose of this email is to open a discussion on the design and implementation of support for Microsoft-style inline assembly in clang. The majority of the work will be done in clang, but I'm CC'ing both dev lists to get the most exposure possible. There are _many_ open questions and the forthcoming description is likely to be obscure in many place (at times this is on purpose,

...e. > > > 4. How do we distinguish the assembly dialect at the IR level? > > I also agree about adding a new attribute to the IR. I'm not familiar with how IR metadata works, but instead of having specific syntax attributes (iasyntaxatt), it would be cleaner to have a generic asmsyntax attribute that could take att/intel values. I don't think metadata would be the right approach as it would be rather heavy handed considering were only storing a bit or two of information. An attribute is the right way to go, so this is really a discussion about syntax. I think I prefer your...