From:	ranla AT post DOT tau DOT ac DOT il (Tal Lavi)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Extended ASM (Was: misc questions)
Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:59:01 LOCAL
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>Tal Lavi wrote:
>> 
>> Just a couple of misc questions, thanks in advance:
>> 
>> 1)Can I define an extended asm command as a macro,
>> with one of the outputs value returned?

>You can, using GCC's statement-expressions extension.  Example:

>#define TEST_BIT(n, b) ({               \
>        char c;                         \
>        asm("btl %1, %2; "              \
>            "setcb %0"                  \
>            : "=rm" (c)                 \
>            : "rI" (b), "rm" (n));      \
>        c;                              \
>})

I'm sorry, but that's not really that clear.
I checked the info's, but I'm still not that sure what "rI", "rm" does
I *think* that rI is a register which holds an integer value, but what does 
"rm" do?

Even more vague is the extended ASM used in sys/farptr.h:

{
  __asm__ __volatile__ ("movw %w0,%%fs \n"
      "	.byte 0x64 \n"
      "	movw %w1,(%k2)"
      :
      : "rm" (selector), "ri" (value), "r" (offset));
}

Can anyone tell me what does
%w0 , %w1, %k2   &   .byte 0x64  means?

Is there a complete extended asm giude somewhere? 
The ones I found, explains only the basics.

	Tal Lavi		ranla AT post DOT tau DOT ac DOT il

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