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From: "Thomas J. Hruska" <shinelight AT crosswinds DOT net>
Subject: Inline ASM question...
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Hello, I am doing that inline ASM thing...again.  The situation is that I
am trying to speed up screen dumps from a buffer to the video buffer using
far pointers.  The idea here is to perform the buffer copy using only one
far pointer reference and a rep.  So, I loaded esi, edi, and ecx with the
appropriate values (I hope).  After clearing the direction flag, I followed
<sys/farptr.h>'s example for moving data (hence, the .byte 0x64).  However,
the problem comes in that rep movsl (or movsd, movs, movll, movb, movsb,
mobsbb, etc.) does not assemble.  The objective is to get the framerate up
from 48 fps to 60 fps (maybe 70 fps) with this code.  NOTE:  The current
selector is _dos_ds when the inline ASM executes (also, assume that y =
0x10000, x = screen_width * screen_height, x2 = 0).

      __asm__ __volatile__ ("
        pushl %%esi
        pushl %%edi
        movl %0, %%esi
        movl %1, %%edi
        movl %2, %%ecx
        cld
        .byte 0x64
        rep movsl
        popl %%edi
        popl %%esi"
        :
        : "g" (&CurrMode.Buffer[x2]), "g" (0xB0000 - y), "g" ((x - x2) %
0x10000));

Thanks for any help in advance!


           Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight AT crosswinds DOT net
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