From: Bill Currie <bcurrie AT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: Inline asm
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 11:52:22 +1300
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Nate Eldredge wrote:
> Not quite. You will have to (save/restore) or (tell the compiler that you
> clobbered) registers which it expects to be preserved across function calls.
> Last I checked, this was %ebx, %esi, %edi and %ebp. IMHO, you should inform

This is correct, though you also have to preserve %ds and %es and
unfortuanatly, there is no way of telling gcc about clobbered segment
registers.

> the compiler about clobbering every register that you change, and it will
> then take appropriate action if necessary.

This is especially true if you start useing inline, __inline__ or -O3.

Bill
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