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I'm currently writing a fixed point number class and I'm trying to
convince g++ (2.6.3 on a linux machine) to inline asm code for two of
the operators.  The operators in question are:

friend fixed operator * (const fixed a, const fixed b); 
friend fixed operator / (const fixed a, const fixed b);


It just doesn't seem to want to do it.  I explicitly made them
non-inlined, did some benchmarking, then tried numerous things to
force them to be inlined, including: optimizations, explicitly using
the 'inline' keyword, etc...  nothing helped.  I also wrote a function
based version of the same data type and it was at least 4-10 times
faster.  This is why I suspect that the asm code is not being inlined
for the class... and it is for the functional version.

The exact code for the * operator is as follows:

inline 
fixed operator * (const fixed A, const fixed B)
{
    fixed result;
    
    __asm__ ("imull %2\n\t"
             "shrd  $16, %%edx, %%eax\n\t"
             :"=a" (result.rep):"a" (A.rep), "d" (B.rep):"eax", "edx");
    
    return result;
}

NOTE1: rep is the data feidl which is actually a 32-bit long.
NOTE2: I've also put the code in the actual class declaration, and
       specified inline, but it didn't make any difference.  This
       declared-out-of-the-class form is this message only.


Can this actually be inlined??  How??  I'm getting frustrated because
I really don't want to give in to using functions instead of a nice
c++ class.  Also, where can I get more information on inlining asm
code in c++ classes?  I checked the man and info pages, and they were
far from informative (for c++ stuff).

If it'll help, I can put the actual code up for ftp...


Thanks...

-Christian