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From: Hermann Samso <samso@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc x86 assembly help
Date: Mon,  4 Jun 2001 08:48:31 +0000
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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