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However, to guarantee optimal performance it is important to use as few registers as possible,
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so they won't have to be saved and reloaded around the inline assembly block.
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To achieve this Rust provides a `lateout` specifier. This can be used on any output that is
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written only after all inputs have been consumed.
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There is also a `inlateout` variant of this specifier.
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written only after all inputs have been consumed. There is also an `inlateout` variant of this
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specifier.
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Here is an example where `inlateout`*cannot* be used in `release` mode or other optimized cases:
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assert_eq!(a, 12);
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```
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The above could work well in unoptimized cases (`Debug` mode), but if you want optimized performance (`release` mode or other optimized cases), it could not work.
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That is because in optimized cases, the compiler is free to allocate the same register for inputs `b` and `c` since it knows they have the same value. However it must allocate a separate register for `a` since it uses `inout` and not`inlateout`. If `inlateout` was used, then `a`and `c` could be allocated to the same register, in which case the first instruction to overwrite the value of `c` and cause the assembly code to produce the wrong result.
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In unoptimized cases (e.g. `Debug` mode), replacing `inout(reg) a` with `inlateout(reg) a` in the above example can continue to give the expected result. However, with `release` mode or other optimized cases, using`inlateout(reg) a`can instead lead to the final value `a = 16`, causing the assertion to fail.
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However the following example can use `inlateout` since the output is only modified after all input registers have been read:
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This is because in optimized cases, the compiler is free to allocate the same register for inputs `b` and `c` since it knows that they have the same value. Furthermore, when `inlateout` is used, `a` and `c` could be allocated to the same register, in which case the first `add` instruction would overwrite the initial load from variable `c`. This is in contrast to how using `inout(reg) a` ensures a separate register is allocated for `a`.
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However, the following example can use `inlateout` since the output is only modified after all input registers have been read:
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