From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: No new line at end of file?
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:48:35 +0100
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Hello.

James Haley wrote:
[snip]
> * major changes to register clobbering rules required total rewrite of
> all inline assembly in the program (fortunately I know someone who
> knows x86 assembly very well, because I personally do not)
[snip]

From what I can remember the previous register clobbering behaviour was wrong
and could hide bugs. So it needed fixing. But I can appreciate how much effort
it is to update to cope with the new rules. Several of my libraries were
bitten by that one.

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]