From: yhirsch <yhirsch AT ibm DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Assembler
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 23:26:26 +0200
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Hi.
    It looks to me like you're using Intel assembler syntax. DJGPP uses At&t
syntax for
    assembler. Try writing this instead:
                                        __asm__ ("in %%dx, %%ax"
                                                                : :"d"(i) );

Laurence Patrick wrote:

>         Hi, I'm learning C and I'm using djgpp to compile my programs. I was
> reading a book and I copy a program that was in there but when I tried to
> compile there was an error :
>
> In function 'ipb':
> Error: parse error before 'mov'
>
> here is the function where the error happened
>
> ipb(int i)
> {
>     asm mov dx,i    /*  <---  The rhide pointer the error to this line */
>     asm in ax,dx
> }
>
>          I compiled the program in other compiler and it worked. I would
> like to know if someone could help me to compile this program in the rhide
> (djgpp).
>
>         Thanks,
>         Sean Nicholas