From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Function Sizes (how to in asm?)
Date: 22 Aug 1997 05:41:47 GMT
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Why doesn't DJ or some other guru modify GCC so that 'sizeof (func)'
returns the size of a function? Presumably the compiler knows the size of
the function, once it has compiled it. The obvious stipulations are that
the sizeof() would only work in the same code file with the function, and
after the function itself, and its use would have to force the compiler
not to inline the function. Thus, you'd use something like

volatile int foo;
void myqueueincrementer (void);
void lockmem (void);

int main (void) {
  lockmen();
  .
  .
  .
  install_timer (myqueueincrementer); // Might have goofed, haven't used that
                                      // bit of allegro in a while.

void myqueueincrementer (void) {
  foo++;
}
.
.
.
void lockmem (void) {
  __dpmi_blah_foo_blah_blah (&foo,4);
  __dpmi_mumble_mutter_bar (myqueueincrementer,sizeof(myqueueincrementer));
}
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh