Add C-implementation for builds on stable rust #24
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asm!is still a way from being stabilised, but it would be really useful to use this crate on stable (though unsafe) rust.This PR adds a
build.rswhich detects if you're on stable/beta vs nightly and uses GCC to compile thesyscall<n>functions from small C snippets (using__asm__). The C code is, well should be, equivalent to the rust code, though I've not been able to test on any platform other than x86_64 linux.A minor disadvantage, the C functions can't easily be inlined (though I suspect LTO might be able to).
Platform support (compared to the rust implementations):