From:	nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	assembler question
Date:	28 Jan 1997 22:09:19 GMT
Organization:	GameBoutique Ltd.
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Keywords:	assembler
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i'm trying to code the following line in inline assembler, but i made a booboo.

a=*((unsigned short *)(EBX<<1));

where EBX is an unsigned long and a is an unsigned short
EBX<<1 points to a correct memory location incidentally, that line is supposed to
look like that ;)

i coded this as..

asm ("movw (%%ebx,2),%%ax"
	: "=a" (a)
	: "b" (EBX)
	: "%eax");

but it has the effect of doing a=*((unsigned short *)(EBX)); instead.
it's ignoring the ,2 bit totally and i can't see why. how should i be doing this?
movw ($0,%%ebx,2),%%ax won't work either ;(


nik



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