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Rollup merge of #73364 - joshtriplett:inline-asm, r=Amanieu
asm: Allow multiple template string arguments; interpret them as newline-separated
Allow the `asm!` macro to accept a series of template arguments, and interpret them as if they were concatenated with a '\n' between them. This allows writing an `asm!` where each line of assembly appears in a separate template string argument.
This syntax makes it possible for rustfmt to reliably format and indent each line of assembly, without risking changes to the inside of a template string. It also avoids the complexity of having the user carefully format and indent a multi-line string (including where to put the surrounding quotes), and avoids the extra indentation and lines of a call to `concat!`.
For example, rewriting the second example from the [blog post on the new inline assembly syntax](https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/06/08/new-inline-asm.html) using multiple template strings:
```rust
fn main() {
let mut bits = [0u8; 64];
for value in 0..=1024u64 {
let popcnt;
unsafe {
asm!(
" popcnt {popcnt}, {v}",
"2:",
" blsi rax, {v}",
" jz 1f",
" xor {v}, rax",
" tzcnt rax, rax",
" stosb",
" jmp 2b",
"1:",
v = inout(reg) value => _,
popcnt = out(reg) popcnt,
out("rax") _, // scratch
inout("rdi") bits.as_mut_ptr() => _,
);
}
println!("bits of {}: {:?}", value, &bits[0..popcnt]);
}
}
```
Note that all the template strings must appear before all other arguments; you cannot, for instance, provide a series of template strings intermixed with the corresponding operands.
The macro will initially be supported only on ARM, AArch64, Hexagon, x86, x86-64 and RISC-V targets. Support for more targets may be added in the future. The compiler will emit an error if `asm!` is used on an unsupported target.
The assembler template uses the same syntax as [format strings][format-syntax] (i.e. placeholders are specified by curly braces). The corresponding arguments are accessed in order, by index, or by name. However, implicit named arguments (introduced by [RFC #2795][rfc-2795]) are not supported.
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An `asm!` invocation may have one or more template string arguments; an `asm!` with multiple template string arguments is treated as if all the strings were concatenated with a `\n` between them. The expected usage is for each template string argument to correspond to a line of assembly code. All template string arguments must appear before any other arguments.
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As with format strings, named arguments must appear after positional arguments. Explicit register operands must appear at the end of the operand list, after named arguments if any.
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Explicit register operands cannot be used by placeholders in the template string. All other named and positional operands must appear at least once in the template string, otherwise a compiler error is generated.
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