From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Is there O2S like OBJ2ASM?
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:52:56 GMT
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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

>(TASM IDEAL mode syntax). I actually don't know how to implement the first one 
>with AT&T syntax assembler. We ended up changing the code to

It's this kind of thing that makes AT&T assembler hard for me :-( I'm
always trying to do funny things with calls and the like, and the
precise syntax for this isn't really explained anywhere I have found! 

So how /do/ you do it?


call pointer
call (pointer)

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