Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:26:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Gisle Vanem <giva AT bryggen DOT bgnett DOT no>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Inline asm: lcall & various binutils versions
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Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> said:

>I took a look at this problem at the weekend and I couldn't find a way to
>avoid this syntax. I tried loading the selector into es and then
>referencing the offset's memory location, like so:
>
>lcall %%es:_myoffset

How about something like this:

 __dpmi_paddr entry;
 entry.selector = your_selector;
 entry.offset = func_offset;
 __asm__ __volatile__ (
          "lcall (%%edi)"
          :: "D" (&entry) );

I've used this in a BIOS32 service module.

Gisle V.