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Inline assembly in C with a jump and two return statements


I would like to have a void function which prints whether carry (overflow) happened and print the value of the (possibly overflowed) summand.

This is my try, but it does want to compile:

#include <stdio.h>

typedef unsigned long ulong;

void
func()
{
    ulong a = 3;
    ulong b = 1;
    ulong c;

    __asm__(
            "\taddq\t%2, %q0\n"     /* Add b to a and store in c */
            "\tjc\tcarry"
            : "=r" (c)              /* Outputs */
            : "0" (a), "rme" (b)    /* Inputs */
            );
    printf("no carry\nc = %lu\n", c);
    return;
    __asm__("carry:");
    printf("carry\nc = %lu\n", c);
    return;
}

int
main()
{
    func();
}

However, it runs when I remove the first return statement, but then it prints twice if no carry happened.

How can I do this with two return statements?


Solution

  • You need to use asm goto for that. To do that, add goto after __asm__, change your label to be a C label, pass the label after the clobbers, and then use a %l to refer to it. Here's your program with those fixes applied:

    #include <stdio.h>
    
    typedef unsigned long ulong;
    
    void
    func()
    {
        ulong a = 3;
        ulong b = 1;
        ulong c;
    
        __asm__ goto(
                "\taddq\t%2, %q0\n"     /* Add b to a and store in c */
                "\tjc\t%l[carry]"
                : "=r" (c)              /* Outputs */
                : "0" (a), "rme" (b)    /* Inputs */
                :
                : carry
                );
        printf("no carry\nc = %lu\n", c);
        return;
        carry:
        printf("carry\nc = %lu\n", c);
        return;
    }
    
    int
    main()
    {
        func();
    }
    

    Though as was mentioned in the comments, for this use case in particular, you should just use __builtin_uaddl_overflow instead, unless your goal is just to learn how to jump out of inline assembly.