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From: Hermann Samso <samso@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc x86 assembly help
Date: Mon,  4 Jun 2001 08:48:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f9b0n$8nj$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010601225409.1D11D199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu>

Russ Cox <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> Ishwar has been trying to compile drawterm on a
> Linux 2.4 kernel.  The drawterm code (like the Inferno
> code before it) depends on the fact that there are
> different TSS registers in each process in Linux,
> but this changed in 2.4 so the Linux-specific code
> broke.

> He's now trying to use the pthread-specific code
> (which works well under FreeBSD and Irix), but gets
> a weird message from gcc about "impossible register
> constraint in asm" on the x86 test-and-set code.

	Seems to me, as if it where more a gcc specific
	problem. I am having the same difficulties to
	compile some Atari-ST emulator. Would also
	appreciate any help.

	hermann samso


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-04  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-01 22:54 Russ Cox
2001-06-02  2:53 ` Martin Harriss
2001-06-04  8:48 ` Hermann Samso [this message]
2001-06-02  2:56 Russ Cox

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