From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 13 22:08:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18330 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 22:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@[208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18325 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 22:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-137.camalott.com [208.229.74.137]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA17627; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:08:57 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00726; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:08:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:08:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807140508.AAA00726@detlev.UUCP> To: kehlet@dt.wdc.com CC: jvz@ns.nternet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Steven Kehlet on Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:55:06 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Assembly.. From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > is 2.8.1. Sounds suspect. It looks like it should accept two args > to lcall if the first is an immediate 16 bit value and the second > an "absolute" value (preceeded by a '*'--this is new to me). But > even trying to give the second value as an absolute, i.e. "lcall > $0x7,*0x0", it still won't compile. I'll try downloading binutils > and compiling the newest gas for FreeBSD sometime... I really can't look at the rest of it, but a '*' is used to mark an absolute jump or call (as opposed to an IP relative jump/call). Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message