Direct C function call using GCC's inline assembly

If you want to call a C/C++ function from inline assembly, you can do something like this:

void callee() {}
void caller()
{
    asm("call *%0" : : "r"(callee));
}

GCC will then emit code which looks like this:

movl $callee, %eax
call *%eax

This can be problematic since the indirect call will destroy the pipeline on older CPUs.

Since the address of callee is eventually a constant, one can imagine that it would be possible to use the i constraint. Quoting from the GCC online docs:

`i'

An immediate integer operand (one with constant value) is allowed. This includes symbolic constants whose values will be known only at assembly time or later.

If I try to use it like this:

asm("call %0" : : "i"(callee));

I get the following error from the assembler:

Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call'

This is because GCC emits the code

call $callee

Instead of

call callee

So my question is whether it is possible to make GCC output the correct call.