Strange output code

[Per Lundberg]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> I believe your problem is that you are not letting the compiler do its
> job.

Yeah, I guess so. I didn't really know what to look for in the
documentation (I've only been using asm for this kind of stuff earlier)

> Your asm constraints make no sense, and you used volatile all
> over the place. 

As you may have guessed, I'm not really familiar with gcc:s handling of
stuff like this.

> If you rewrite the function like this:

[...]

It seems to work a lot better, yes. Thanks a lot!
 
> [What platform is this

chaos ( http://www.chaosdev.org ).

> what happens if the syscall fails

What do you mean? It can't fail. If it fails, it returns an error code in
EAX.

> and why can't you use the stub in the standard library for this call?]

Well, there isn't a standard library. This code will probably be a part of
that library later on.