To: "Ian Chapman" <ichapman AT mailcity DOT com>, "Nate Eldredge" <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 06:50:57 -0700
From: "Ian Chapman" <ichapman AT mailcity DOT com>
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Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, "Xavi Cardona" <xavicardona AT rocketmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Re: z80 to 386
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Nate,
     Nor I.  Seems asm is a handoff reserved word/token.  char asm_1[30] = was okay.

     Regards Ian.
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Ian Chapman, Home 819-243-3384 Bur 613-762-9185
>Ian Chapman wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Xavi,
>>         I use
>> 
>>                 *** char asm[30] ={"movb whatever"}; ***
>> 
>> and it assembles  Regards Ian.
>
>Huh??? The documentation says nothing like this, and I can't make it
>work either.  I think the original poster wanted some instructions
>assembled and placed in an array, and that doesn't do it.  If you really
>have managed to do this, please post your exact code and GCC version.
>
>> Xavi Cardona wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi!
>> > I'm working on a Z80 to 80386 machine code translator.
>> > I make the following routine for putting the "movb $0x1,i" in the
>> >  string variable, but it doesn't work. Gcc says "parse error before
>> > asm".
>> > As you see, I don't want to execute the movb instruccion. I just want to
>> > store the machine code of this instruccion on an array.
>> > main()
>> > {int i=5;
>> > char string[30]; /*more space than we really need*/
>> > string=asm ("movb $0x1,%0"
>> >         :"=g" (i)
>> >         :"g" (i)     );
>> > }
>> > There is any easy :) way for doing this?
>> > Thanks in advanced.
>
>Well.... you could do something like this:
>
>asm(".data \n\t"
>    "_string: \n\t"
>    "movb $0x1, %0 \n\t"
>    ".text" : "=g" (i) : "0" (i)); /* note change here; read docs for
>why it's needed */
>
>But that would require that:
>
>* It be outside all functions, or in a function that cannot be inlined.
>* `i' be a global or static variable
>
>This would also not be useful for an assembler (which is basically what
>you are writing), because for any case other than a move of that exact
>value to the exact location at which `i' happens to reside, the code
>wouldn't work.
>-- 
>
>Nate Eldredge
>nate AT cartsys DOT com
>
>
>


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