inline assembler

[y2bismil@engmail.uwaterloo.ca]

Hi all,

I was wondering about inline assember.  I've been reading up quite a bit on it,
and have noticed a common pattern to 'emulate' functions.
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example from: 
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/brennan/brennan_att_inline_djgpp.html
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#define times3(arg1, arg2) \
__asm__ ( \
  "leal (%0,%0,2),%0" \
  : "=r" (arg2) \
  : "0" (arg1) );
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Is there a way in inline assembler to do 'real' functions?  As an example
suppose I have the following:  
#define times3(arg1)__asm__ (...);  /*this results in arg1*3*/

Would there be a way for me to say 
int x = times3(arg1);

My guess is no, but I thought I'd check anyways.

Thanks,

Yamin



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