Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:56:43 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: zidharta AT geocities DOT com cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: some questions! (inline, egcs, and others!) In-Reply-To: <7oambn$9r1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 zidharta AT geocities DOT com wrote: > gcc isnot written by DJ?? No. DJ Delorie ported GCC to MS-DOS. The compiler itself was written as is maintained by the GNU project. See http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html. > so what is DJGPP actually? DJGPP includes a lot of ported GNU software, an ANSI- and Posix-compliant C library, and a set of special development tools. > what kind of things can make inline cannot be proceed by gcc? See the GCC documentation, it explains this issue in detail. > > You can't do it in NASM, because gcc doesn't use NASM, and your inline > > assembly would have to become part of the assembly output from gcc. > > You *have* to use 'gas' assembly language, for this. > > is "gas" asm language is the builtin AT&T asm that used by DJGPP ? Yes, Gas is the GNU Assembler invoked by GCC to generate the object file.