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From: Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "'Tom St Denis'" <tomstdenis AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: Accessing registers from C
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:53:21 +0530 
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On Monday, July 02, 2001 2:28 AM, Tom St Denis [SMTP:tomstdenis AT yahoo DOT com]
wrote:
| 
| "Jacek K." <xos AT o2 DOT pl> wrote in message news:9hns3d$4rn$1
| @news.tpi.pl...
| > Are there some instructions/macros to access CPU registers?
| > Anything other
| > than inline assembly, of course.
| 
| No and you shouldn't.

And why not?

Try this:

void foo ()
{
	register unsigned long eax __asm__ ("ax");

	...
}

Everytime you use the variable "eax", you're actually accessing or modifying
the eax register itself.
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