__asm__ and -fPIC problem

[Marcus Meissner]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:53:53AM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > xx.c: In function `DPMI_CallRMCBProc':
> > xx.c:36: Invalid `asm' statement:
> > xx.c:36: fixed or forbidden register 1 (dx) was spilled for class GENERAL_REGS.
> 
> I haven't debugged it, but probably the compiler simply needs more registers
> than it can find.  Remember that for a "m" constraint, you need up to
> two registers for the address.
> Maybe you could write the whole function in assembler rather than in C - there
> are no C bits anyway.

Well, I was more concerned that there is a gcc bug ;)

The routine itself is not that important in itself, will see if I find the
time to fix it.

Ciao, Marcus