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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: cdrom boot?
Cc: Christian.Gusenbauer@safeconcept.utimaco.co.at,
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>I tried to port fbsdboot to bcc a year ago. Unfortunately, bcc doesn't
>understand inline assembler statements (AFAIR)

Yes it does:

	int main(argc, argv)
	int achar **argv;
	{
		int foo;
		;		/* end declarations to get frame allocated */
	#asm
	; Offsets are relative to sp so they are only easy to use on x86's
	; for x >= 3.
		mov	ax,_main.argc[sp]
		mov	bx,_main.argv[sp]
		mov	cx,_main.foo[sp]
		mov	dx,1
		...
	#endasm
	}

>and I'm not very familar
>with the unix assembler.

It doesn't use "the" unix assembler.

>Does bcc support 32bit pointers/addresses (like
>the 'far' masm statement)? 

No.  It only supports pure tiny and small models.

Bruce