Inline ASM in C(GCC)

[Vladaz]

Hello,
can someone help me and translate this line to full c function or smth, that would do inline assembler:
mov ax, x
when x is my variable.
That variabl x is unsigned char.

[Solar]

With a tiny bit of tweaking the example given at http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/InlineAssembly, I'd say:

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void foo( unsigned char x )
{
  asm ("mov ax, %0" : "=g"(x) );
}

[Pype.Clicker]

hmm, now beware ...

"mov ax,<x>" in intel-syntax is "movw <x>,%ax" in AT&T

Why do you want to mov "ax" somewhere ? i guess you have some other ASM stuff that puts a result in AX and you want to retrieve that ...

By any chance, if the AX is the result of a function CALL, you need to know that C compilers will use (e)AX as the result of the function if it's atomic (integer, pointer, char, etc.)

In that case, if you have

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myAsmFct:
    ;; do stuff
    mov ax,<result>
    ret

then doing

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    myVar=myAsmFct();

is enough. No inline is required ...

HTH

[bubach]

Why do you want to mov "ax" somewhere ? i guess you have some other ASM stuff that puts a result in AX and you want to retrieve that ...

what are you talking about?

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mov ax, x    ; moves location of variable x into ax
mov ax, [x]  ; moves contents of x into ax

[EDIT] forget it... :-[

[Pype.Clicker]

well, actually my concern is that in the middle of a stream of C instructions, content of register have little meaning. Moreover, the optimizer is usually free to reorder things, etc. and the compiler might not be able to trace the dependency between instructions if you e.g. have

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    // do not do this, please.
    asm("cpuid");
    asm("mov %eax, %0","=g"(myVar));

If you have dependencies between some inline assembler instructions, you should put those instruction in a single asm("...") expression:

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    // do this instead
   asm("cpuid","=a"(myVar));

[Solar]

"mov ax,<x>" in intel-syntax is "movw <x>,%ax" in AT&T

::)

There I am, the AT&T evangelist of the lord, and in a minute of not concentrating on what I type I screw up like that...

[distantvoices]

praise the big gosh a'mighty - and St. Gnucius, just to be sure to get every important god outta there for the benefit of knowing at&t syntax by heart*rofl*

such things sometimes happen. Won't be funny wi'out 'em.