hi about C and asm

Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschaefer at gmx.net
Wed May 29 11:33:59 EDT 2013


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:02:22AM +0800, lx wrote:
> hi all:
>      They are some asm codes in the kernel like:
> 
> #define set_bit(nr,addr) ({\
> register int res __asm__("ax"); \
> __asm__ __volatile__("btsl %2,%3\n\tsetb %%al": \
> "=a" (res):"0" (0),"r" (nr),"m" (*(addr))); \
> res;})
> 
> 
> But, almost I can't understand this. So I want to understand asm in C,
> which book or website I should learn ?

Google "asm in c", first link is:
http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO.html


HTH,
Jonathan Neuschäfer



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