From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: far calls with inline AT&T
Date: 31 May 2001 11:13:39 -0700
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> > From: "J. Weeks" <jweeks AT mailandnews DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:47:27 -0400
> > 
> > I want to call a callgate at descriptor 0x28, so my code is as follows:
> > __asm__(
> >   "mov $0x28, %ax\n" \
> >   "mov %ax, %es  \n" \
> >   "call %es:0x0 \n");
> > 
> > But it keeps telling me its ignoring my prefix (which I assume to be the
> > %es:... ).  Any ideas why, and how I can go about this far call.
> 
> Use "lcall", not "call".

And use a comma instead of a colon.  (This is described in the as
manual, under "i386 dependencies".)

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Nate Eldredge
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