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From: mahesh@sendai.seq.com (Mahesh Neelakanta)
Subject: Re: Gnu Inline Assembly question
Message-ID: <1994Mar29.163424.9397@sendai.seq.com>
Organization: Sequoia International, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 16:34:24 GMT
References: <2n76gvINNbjn@uwm.edu>
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In article <2n76gvINNbjn@uwm.edu> knier@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Robert Knier ) writes:
> Sorry if this doesn't belong here - but since this is for developing a Future Domain, Seagate ST01/02 device driver here goes. Does any one have info on inline assembly with the gnu compiler? More specifically, I am trying to
>write some assembly code to speed up data transfer to and from a future domain
>card. I am wondering on the syntax of inline assembly code.
>
You might want to look in the kernel sources for some examples of using the
asm calls. I saw a couple of instances in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/npx.c and
i386/isa/sound/audio.c and i386/i386/*.c
mahesh
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