Re: gcc question for inline assembly.

["Brian Budge" <brian dot budge at gmail dot com>]

Hi Stuart -

This is really a C/C++ question, and not really a gcc/c++ question.

However, in C, you can't pass things by reference (the &), you should
pass by address instead, and then dereference to set the values.

 Brian

On 9/11/06, Stuart Cracraft <cracraft@cox.net> wrote:
> Hi - someone supplied the following code
> in a C++ program to me that g++ compiled.
>
> However, I want to convert it to use it in
> a regular C program that gcc can compile.
>
> Needless to say, the construct does not work
> for GNU C.
>
> I've tried placing each line of the assembly
> in asm("...."); and that also fails to get
> gcc to compile it.
>
> What would the equivalent GNU C function for the
> below be?
>
> static unsigned int bitScanAndReset(unsigned long long & bb) {
>
>        __asm
>        {
>                xor     edx, edx
>                mov     ebx, [bb]
>                xor     eax, eax
>                inc     edx
>                bsf     ecx, [ebx]
>                jnz     found
>                bsf     ecx, [ebx+4]
>                lea     ebx, [ebx+4]
>                xor     eax, 32
>        found:
>                shl     edx, cl
>                xor     eax, ecx
>                xor     [ebx], edx
>        }
> }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart