• dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> Nov 19 2010
• Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Nov 19 2010

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:

What is the rule on who is responsible for saving registers when inserting an
inline ASM block into the middle of a function?  For example:

void fun() {
    auto ptr = somePointer();
    asm {
        mov EAX, ptr;
        lock;
        inc [EAX];
    }
}

Is this acceptable (will the compiler do what it needs to do to deal with my
usage of EAX), or do I need to do something more like:

asm {
    push EAX;
    lock;
    inc [EAX];
    pop EAX;
}

, leaving EAX exactly as I found it?

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

dsimcha wrote:
 What is the rule on who is responsible for saving registers when inserting an
 inline ASM block into the middle of a function?  For example:
 
 void fun() {
     auto ptr = somePointer();
     asm {
         mov EAX, ptr;
         lock;
         inc [EAX];
     }
 }
 
 Is this acceptable (will the compiler do what it needs to do to deal with my
 usage of EAX), or do I need to do something more like:
 
 asm {
     push EAX;
     lock;
     inc [EAX];
     pop EAX;
 }
 
 , leaving EAX exactly as I found it?


Unless you use 'naked' asm, the compiler will figure it out for you.