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From: "Rajesh Vivekanandham" <r_vivekan AT satyam DOT net DOT in>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: COFF and MASM
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 01:09:39 +0530
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I am using MASM's (v6.15)  COFF object files with Djgpp v2 (RHIDE ) and
am getting a strange error while calling the coff file from a c program
in the RHIDE env.


this is the MASM assembly file
.386
.MODEL FLAT

.DATA
VAR1 DW 0
VAR2 DW 0

.CODE
_xmain  PROC    NEAR
MOV AX,0ffffh
MOV VAR2,AX
MOV VAR1,AX
RET
_xmain  ENDP
END



now when i use this function from rhide and read the contents of the
disassembler window
i can see the following code

MOV %ax,VAR1
MOV %ax,VAR1

VAR2 store is getting transformed into a VAR1 store!!
WHY??????
Please help me out. A BIG LOAD OF THANX in advance.