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

[Philip B. <phi...@pb...>]

No, I did not request him to write assembly code and thus, I did not tell 
him what compiler I was using either. he compiled a test executable and I 
thought it was such a simple task and I had seen a working example as well 
as the code, so I paid him. It was a low price, because it is a simple 
function. I'm not sure where to go from here, I suppose I will have to hire 
someone to explissitly translate the thing because I don't have enough 
knowledge yet to do it myself. The section I pasted was only one of the two 
that there are all in total, although the second one is a bit longer but the 
same commands are repeated.

Regards
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Westermark" <pw...@ia...>
To: "Philip Bennefall" <phi...@pb...>
Cc: <dev...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Problem with __asm statement


> 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
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