;; @file
; InnoTek Portable Runtime - ASMProbeReadByte().
;

;
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;
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%include "iprt/asmdefs.mac"

BEGINCODE

;;
; Probes a byte pointer for read access.
;
; While the function will not fault if the byte is not read accessible,
; the idea is to do this in a safe place like before acquiring locks
; and such like.
;
; Also, this functions guarantees that an eager compiler is not going
; to optimize the probing away.
;
; @param   rcx  pvByte      Pointer to the byte.
BEGINPROC_EXPORTED ASMProbeReadByte
        mov     al, [rcx]
        ret
ENDPROC ASMProbeReadByte

