Re: [Dev-C++] Problem with __asm statement

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Because asm isn't examply part of the c++ standard.

The use of embedded assembler is a compiler-specific extension, and
different architectures and/or compilers can use different formats.

VC uses the Intel standard for writing x86 assembly instructions.

gcc uses the AT&T syntax.

See http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO.html#s3

Different compilers also have different calling conventions, so even if
the assembly code is modified to the correct dialect, you can't be sure
that the two compilers uses the same registers or parameter passing
conventions.

Did you request him to write in assembler? If you didn't specifically
requested it, then the delivery was not according to agreement.

If you did request an assembler solution, then you should have specified
the target, i.e. processor, OS, compiler, ...

/pwm

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Philip Bennefall wrote:

> Hello,
>
> A few days go I hired a person from Rent a coder to write me a couple of C++ functions. he was using Vc++ to develop his code as far as I know. Now, MinGW has problems compiling his code because of the fact that he is using assembly. One part of the code looks like:
> __asm {
> mov ebx, dwCardID
> add ebx, i
> xor eax,eax
> mov al, bTmp
> mov byte ptr [ebx],al
> }
> But it completely refuses to compile it. Can anyone tell me why?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Philip Bennefall