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From:	"Michael Sisco" <michael DOT sisco AT qtiworld DOT com>
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Subject:	extended asm problems (bug???)
Date:	Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:21:58 -0600
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I have some questions concerning extended asm, one general and several
specific:

First the general question - I have yet to find a very thorough treatise on
the use of extended asm with DJGPP. I have found enough to get through the
basics, but there are things that don't work as I would have expected, and
other things that I just can't find an example of. My general question is:
What is the definitive text on using extended asm with DJGPP?

My more specific questions:

1) This one appears to me to be a bug. The following code fragment compiles
fine, and the .s file contains exactly the asm code I would expect, as long
as optimizations are not turned on. However, when I turn on optimizations
(-O3), the compiler attempts to use the di register for a movb at the
location shown.  The linker has serious issues with this attempt, and gives
an error message stating that the data size is invalid for mov instruction.

// uchar is of course a typedef for unsigned char, and the various eValues
are members of an enumeration.
void QClock::vSetRTClockTime(uchar ucHours, uchar ucMin, uchar ucSec)
{
  __asm__ __volatile__(
   "movb %2, %%al\n\t"
   "out %%al, %0\n\t"
   "movb %5, %%al\n\t" <<<=== OK if no optimization ("movb -1(%ebp), %al)
   "out %%al, %1\n\t"   // set the hours
  // Irrelevant code deleted...
   :
   : "g" (eCLOCK_WRITE_PORT), "g" (eCLOCK_REG_PORT), "g" (eHOURS),
         "g" (eMINUTES), "g" (eSECONDS), "g" (ucHours), "g" (ucMin), "g"
(ucSec)
   : "ax"
  );
}
Here's the output from the .s file (I've pulled out the irrelevant parts):

 .ascii "QClock::vSetRTClockTime\0"
 .p2align 4
.globl __ZN6QClock15vSetRTClockTimeEhhh
__ZN6QClock15vSetRTClockTimeEhhh:
LFB10:
 pushl %ebp
LCFI46:
 movl %esp, %ebp
LCFI47:
 pushl %edi
LCFI48:
 pushl %esi
LCFI49:
 pushl %ebx
LCFI50:
 subl $24, %esp
LCFI51:
 movb 20(%ebp), %bl
 movzbl 12(%ebp), %edi
 movzbl 16(%ebp), %esi
/APP

    movb $4, %al
    out %al, $112
    movb %di, %al   <<<=== Error occurs here!!!!
    out %al, $113
                 // set the hours

Any idea what might be happening here?

2) A colleague of mine has the following question: This is simply a matter
of syntax translation, but I can't find the answer anywhere:

How would you convert the following statements to AT&T syntax?
MOV ES:[BX][DI], AL
MOV SI, ES:[DI]
MOV AL, ES:[BX][DI]
MOV ES:[DI], BX

3) Hopefully simple: We have been unable to use any labels within an __asm__
block other than numbers(i.e. 0:, 1:, 23:). Is this a real limitation, or
are we missing something?

Thanks for your time,

Michael

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