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Subject: Re: __stdcall and fastcall in DJGPP?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 08:51:52 GMT
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Joseph Rose wrote:

>What's "profiling"?

See the FAQ.

>Also, the routine in question, Draw_Line_HorizHere,
>uses DS:EDI for the position of the line and ECX for the length.  Any other
>routine which might use the registers will be designed to interface with
>other asm routines and probably use the registers a certain way
>(AL=color/Value, EDI=destination, ECX=Length/X/Some kind of factor, EDX=Y,
>etc.)

Then you can't directly call them from DJGPP code.  (Hmm, not quite true,
now I come to think about it.  You could call them from inline asm.)

S.