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> From: Les Cargill <lcargill AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:32:08 GMT
> > 
> > In C, the easiest way is to use the longjmp library function.
> >
> > Why do you need to use "asm"?
> 
> To give the stack pointer an initial value, so that each "thread"
> can have its own stack. 

As someone else already pointed out, longjmp can do that just fine.

> I note that the arguments to asm are reversed from the output
> assembly for the "mov" instruction.

Actually, it's the other way around: the Intel asm format (which you
seem to be used to) has the arguments reversed, while the AT&T format
used by GCC and other GNU tools has the arguments in their One And
Only Correct Order (tm).