Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:43:00 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Bill Currie wrote:

> I'm currently working on __attribute__((naked)) for *ALL* egcs ports. 
> This will produce functions that have *NO* entry or exit code (main code
> only), not even a `ret', I believe.

That's not exactly what I had in mind, as you probably understand.  This 
attribute((naked)) seems to be for people who know what they are doing 
and want to avoid the overhead of the C function call.  I meant quite the 
opposite: to relieve a naive user from the need to know assembly in simple
interrupt-driven code.