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From: beppu AT arcturus DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu (John Beppu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Simple ASM question (direction flag)
Date: 6 May 1996 08:22:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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>Lennart Steinke (steinke AT zeus DOT adv-boeblingen DOT de) writes:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> 	I need something like memcpy(),
>> but with inverted direction flag. So that
>> the dest. pointer points to the end of the used
>> memory, not to the beginning. I need the
>> same for memset(), too.
>> 
>> 	This can't be that hard, but
>> a) I'm not fluid in ASM, especially not with DJGPP,
>> b) have no ASM books here at work, and
>> c) have only the bins of DJGPP v2, so I can't look
>>    into the source of the above mentioned funcs.
>> 
>> I need these funcs to blit an bitmap mirrored to the
>> screen.



   If you were wondering about how to set the direction flag,
   it should be: 

	std

   Just to be safe, I'd clear the direction flag after doing the
   backward string instructions just in case.  The instruction
   to clear the direction flag is

	cld



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