Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:43:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Lanugo of the wandering souls <lanugo AT SCEMOCHISPAMMAflashmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Calling an interrupt from inline assembly
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Lanugo of the wandering souls wrote:

> This is my problem: I need to call an INT instruction (I do not know nearly
> anything about assembly, I'm just copying some code found on a website,
> written for another compiler), but when I write
> 
>  asm ("mov %ax, $0x13" : "int $0x10");
> 
> the compiler does not work properly due to a parse error befor ).

You don't need assembly for this.  Here's how to say this in C:

  #include <dpmi.h>

  __dpmi_regs r;

  r.x.ax = 0x0013;
  __dpmi_int (0x10, &r);


That's it!  See sections 17.8 and 18.1-18.5 of the DJGPP FAQ for more
details about how to call real-mode services from a DJGPP program.