Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:20:47 -0400 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: asm in C slightly OT |
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:51:10PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > > > Followup to: <39795FCE.65EE2768@pioneer.net> > > By author: George Anzinger <george@pioneer.net> > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > > The first line looks like a function proto type. It is unclear how it > > > is related to the rest of the macro. This macro generates a bit of code > > > that is not a function in any way. It has an entry label > > > "common_interrupt" and ends with a jmp. What I really want to know is > > > how to refer to a C variable inside of such a construct. The gcc > > > documentation talks about how to do it in more standard asm. I would > > > like, for example to add to the above macro, for example: > > > > > > "incl foo.bar" where bar is a member of structure foo. > > > > > > I know this could be done as: "incl foo+xxx" where xxx is the offset > > > of bar in foo, but I would like the compiler to figure this for me so as > > > to follow structure changes. > > > > > > > RTFM(info gcc) > > > > asm("incl (%0)" :: "i" (&foo.bar)); > > I wish it was that easy. As it turns out the asm statement is not > inside a function. This seems to turn off the ability to use the ":" > construct. Why? Wish I knew. At this point I think I must use hand > computed offsets for members of structures refered to from asm code that > is not in a function.
Why, because outside of a function, it doesn't do register allocation, thus GCC believes it shouldn't give you the option of specifying variables. Basically it just dumps the text into the asm input file.
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