Re: pcmcia 11-Aug-99 / gcc 2.95

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:10:05 -0400


Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@mandrakesoft.com> said:
> pcmcia 11-Aug-99 doesn't compile with gcc 2.95 because of some broken asm
> constructs.
>
> __asm__ __volatile__
> ("lcall %%cs:" SYMBOL_NAME_STR(pnp_bios_callpoint) "\n\t"
> :"=a"(status)
> ^^^^
> :"a"(PNP_GET_NUM_SYS_DEV_NODES),
> ^^^
> "b"((2 << 16) | PNP_TS1),
> "c"((PNP_DS << 16) | PNP_TS1)
> :"ax", "memory");
> ^^^^
>
> I know the usual fix for this, but I'm not sure how to do fix it for a
> BIOS call...

It should work exactly the same here, as you are just messing with
arguments and explaining to gcc what gets changed by the asm() behind it's
back. The contents of the asm() is just a string that gets pasted into the
.s output at the appropiate point(s).

Hope this helps a bit.

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