Using inline assembly is perfectly fine. I don't think we disagree here. The only bad thing is trying to bend broken intrinsics into half-way doing what you wa

Using inline assembly is perfectly fine. I don't think we disagree here. The only bad thing is trying to bend broken intrinsics into half-way doing what you want and complaining that it is too much work. Don't do that. --- Also, keep in mind that with inline assembly you often need one implementation per architecture and per compiler, since all compilers have slightly different syntax (its non-standard), i've seen multiple implementations even for the same compiler depending on version...