From: pappd AT lion DOT lat DOT oz DOT au (Factory)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: comments in inline assembly?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:53:45 GMT
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On Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:27:25 -0400, Jeff Weeks <pweeks AT execulink DOT com>
wrote:

>Is it possible to have comments in inline assembly in DJGPP?  I'm
>writting some moderately small code (only about 20-30 lines) in inline
>assembly, but I would still like to include comments so I know what I'm
>doing at a later date.
>
>If it is possible, how is it done?

  It's possible, just put hashes at the start of the commented lines,
like such:
  asm ("
     # I'm a comment
     movw $0x004c,%%ax
     int 0x21
  "::: "ax");

  The documentation claims that one can use the /*.. */ style of
commenting, but this doesn't seem to work :(.
  Now all we need is more than ten local labels, I hate choosing
between meaningful labels and inline functions.

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