Re: Linux assembly query

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this is interesting....

from

http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/inline_asm.html

it seemed to mean "read-write"?

and perhaps someone should update this:

http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO.html

as I cannot find any such feature mentioned as well.

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:15 AM, dinesh bhaskar <pdineshb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,

can somebody explain me the following assembly syntax, this I have
seen in Linux kernel code.

 asm volatile("int $0x16"
            : "+a" (ax), "+b" (bx)
            : : "ecx", "edx", "esi", "edi");

I did not understand :"+a" mean.  what does "+" tell there?
Generally we use "=a", indicating the output operands and other
registers are indicated as clobbered registeres.


TIA
dinesh

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