Message-ID:	<19970630162210.52898@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:22:10 +0200
From:	Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To:	Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Cc:	Eric Liao <su-lin DOT liao AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: weird DJGPP errors, please help!
References:	<33b1a6e5 DOT 5673107 AT netnews DOT worldnet DOT att DOT net> <199706301345 DOT AA072748338 AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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In-Reply-To:	<199706301345.AA072748338@typhoon.rose.hp.com>; from Andrew Crabtree on Mon, Jun 30, 1997 at 06:45:38AM -0800

I vaguely recall that you get this kind of error when some redirection
is active (either something like 2r1 in v1 or some command line redirection
to a file). It looks like the as phase is passed some C code.


On Mon, Jun 30, 1997 at 06:45:38AM -0800, Andrew Crabtree wrote:
> > 
> > Assembler messages:
> > c:/djgpp/tmp/RHfaaaaa\cccaaaaa(451) Error: Error: Ignoring junk 'h'
> > after expression
> > c:/djgpp/tmp/RHfaaaaa\cccaaaaa(451) Error: Error: operands given don't
> > match any known 386 instruction
> > c:/djgpp/tmp/RHfaaaaa\cccaaaaa(451) Error: Error: invalid char '['
> > begining second operand '[xoff]'
> > c:/djgpp/tmp/RHfaaaaa\cccaaaaa(451) Error: Error: invalid char '['
> > begining second operand '[yoff]'
> > c:/djgpp/tmp/RHfaaaaa\cccaaaaa(451) Error: Error: invalid char '['
> > begining second operand '[p]'
> > c:/djgpp/tmp/RHfaaaaa\cccaaaaa(451) Error: Error: Ignoring junk 'h'
> > after expression
> > c:/djgpp/tmp/RHfaaaaa\cccaaaaa(451) Error: Error: operands given don't
> > match any known 386 instruction
> 
> Just a guess (post your source next time)
> but I'd say you have inline assembly in your program.  
> DJGPP uses AT&T syntax, which is quite different.  See the FAQ for 
> details on how to convert.
> 
> Off the top of my head - 
> 
> Post a b,w,or l after each instruction mnemonic to indicate the size
> and do not use word ptr type size overrides.
> 
> registers must be preceded with a %.
> Immediates must be preceded with a $
> Source and destination are reversed.
> Memory addressing is (I think)
> displacement(base,index,scale)
> Note that you use parenthesis and commas to separate
> 
> so 
> 
> inc word ptr [esi]
> 
> becomes
> 
> incw (%esi)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de

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