Author: Hristo
Date: 13:26:11 10/24/99
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On October 24, 1999 at 16:05:03, Michel Langeveld wrote: >On October 24, 1999 at 12:34:09, Hristo wrote: > >>On October 24, 1999 at 12:02:17, Michel Langeveld wrote: >> >>>>You are absolutely correct. >>>>hash.c 12438 -> 297 lines in C >>>>The errors seem to come from the assembler ... >>>>then the line numbers are different, bizare. >>>> >>>>I want to get the assemebly code going now ... >>>>so we can check it out ... >>> >>>Ok let me know if you are ready (rudolf@stad.dsl.nl) >>> >>>I also noticed in Deja in some linux newsgroups that the warnings can be >>>ingnored. But I want to check it out for sure... >>> >>>Do you only get warnings like this or do you also got other warnings/errors? >> >>no errors. Only those warnings. >> >>hristo > >After you email the assembly Cygnus of hash.c I came to the folowing conclusing: >-all the line numbers which are warned are 2 kind of instructiongs: > 1) xchgw %eax,lock_hasha > 2) xchgw %eax,lock_hashb > >-xchgw is an instructing which expect an 16bit var. > eax and lock_hashb are both 32-bit (lock_hasha for example is of type lock_t >and lock_t is of type int, which is 4 byte on intel 32bit) > >so the instruction to be used has to be xchgl instead of xchgw. > >The compiler warns about this and said it will use ax instead of eax. This is >not entirely correct since ax can only contain the least signigicant part of >eax. So works only as long lock_hasha doesn't exceed the 65536. > >I don't have cygnus home here. So I can't try for myself. Maybe you can fix this >kind of error with some kind of compiler patch and or compiler option. > >Kind regards, > >Michel Langeveld Thanks Michel! I'll try to fix it ! :) regards, hristo
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