From:	leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Message-Id:	<199712050201.MAA06275@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Subject:	Re: Inline asm
To:	fabrice AT trash DOT lip6 DOT fr (Fabrice ILPONSE)
Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:01:51 +1000 (EST)
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<34852EF2.D4F@trash.lip6.fr> from "Fabrice ILPONSE" at Dec 3, 97 11:05:38 am

> 	I'm not totally agree with that!
> 	You don't know, if you use gcc -O option how the registers would be
> assigned and used!

The premise I was following that the only code in the routine was ASM,
meaning gcc wouldn't play with any of the registers (if I declare the asm
volatile, which I didn't do in the original post). 
 
> 	Q: i usually writes long piece of assembly. So why is there such a
> limitation to the "%x" variables? "x" only goes from 0 to 9. So i have
> to cut my code into smaller peaces to be able to use more then 10
> variables. In this case too, you must explicitly indicate the registers
> to push at the beginning of the first asm() and the pop at the end of
> the last one.

I have no idea but gave up on the 10 limit and just declared everything
global. Faster, easier and no limitation on the variable passing....

Leathal.

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