From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: inline asm problems and making Allegro
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:58:38 -0700
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N E Parris wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> This is probably a problem you've seen before but I couldn't
> see it in the newsgroup so I hope someone can help?
> 
> I've installed everything alright, gcc, rhide, info, g032 etc etc
> seem to work fine for the programs I have written so far
> but when I try to 'make' in the Allegro library it has a problem
> with the inline asm in the code... here's the error:
> 
>  D:\djgpp\allegro>make
>  Compiling Allegro. Please wait...
>  gcc -I. -Isrc -Iobj/djgpp -Wall -Wno-unused -m486 -O3 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-p
>  ointer -o obj/djgpp/cpu.o -c src/cpu.c
>  src/cpu.c: In function `check_cpu':
>  src/cpu.c:276: Invalid `asm' statement:
>  src/cpu.c:276: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for class AREG.
>  src/cpu.c:155: Invalid `asm' statement:
>  src/cpu.c:155: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for class AREG.
>  src/cpu.c:124: Invalid `asm' statement:
>  src/cpu.c:124: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for class AREG.
>  src/cpu.c:64: Invalid `asm' statement:
>  src/cpu.c:64: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for class AREG.
>  src/cpu.c:155: Invalid `asm' statement:
>  src/cpu.c:155: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for class AREG.
>  make.exe: *** [obj/djgpp/cpu.o] Error 1
> 
>  D:\djgpp\allegro>
> 
> I've been reading all I can about the inline asm etc, clobbering
> and all that but I can't work out why this doesn't work.

Please try a more recent version of Allegro, like 3.12.  This is an
incompatibility between older versions and a new version of the
compiler.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge AT hmc DOT edu