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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: Les Cargill <lcargill AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:32:08 GMT
> > >
> > > In C, the easiest way is to use the longjmp library function.
> > >
> > > Why do you need to use "asm"?
> >
> > To give the stack pointer an initial value, so that each "thread"
> > can have its own stack.
> 
> As someone else already pointed out, longjmp can do that just fine.
> 

At an (extremely) small cost in overhead. 

> > I note that the arguments to asm are reversed from the output
> > assembly for the "mov" instruction.
> 
> Actually, it's the other way around: the Intel asm format (which you
> seem to be used to)

Only when Intel-ing. 

> has the arguments reversed, while the AT&T format
> used by GCC and other GNU tools has the arguments in their One And
> Only Correct Order (tm).

Quoth the Book of Moto: source -> destination . 

I thank you, gentlemen. 

--
Les Cargill

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