From:	Matthias Grimrath <y0001032 AT ws DOT rz DOT tu-bs DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Is there O2S like OBJ2ASM?
Date:	Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:02:46 +0100
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Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> 
> Petteri DOT Kangaslampi AT research DOT nokia DOT com (Petteri Kangaslampi) wrote:
> >Also, I know that one piece of code gets transformed wrong. If you have a
> >pointer to a function in a variable, and want to call that, the resulting AT&T
> >assembler code just tries to call the address of the variable. So in effect
> 
> >       call    [dword pointer]
> >gets replaced by
> >       call    pointer
> 
...
> So how /do/ you do it?
> 
> call pointer
> call (pointer)

Try '(l)call pointer(,1) or (l)jmp pointer(,1)` to jump to the address
that 'pointer'
holds. This workaround is rather ugly, but it works for me.

IMHO, the AT&T syntax is inconsequently here - to jump to function, it
should be
'call $_foo' instead of 'call _foo'

Matthias Grimrath

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