From: Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de>
To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin <crsntlvs@ipeg.com>
Cc: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: C structures and gas
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:15:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE5B49F.26B3285F@hob.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DD04E99.5080704@ipeg.com
Corey Holcomb-Hockin schrieb:
> What is the best way to access C structures with gas assembly? I
> haven't gotten any good ideas from looking at assembly generated from C
> code. It looks like it keeps track of offsets and the size of
> structures on its own. I would have a hard time keeping track of
> offsets and changing them if the structure changed.
>
> Corey Holcomb-Hockin
>
Have a look how linux does this in the ia64 tree. See
/usr/src/linux/arch/ia64/tools/print_offset.c.
There are three steps:
1. compile print_offsets
2. run print_offsets (creates offsets.h)
3. include offsets.h into *.S
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-28 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-12 0:43 C structures and gas Corey Holcomb-Hockin
2002-11-12 2:51 ` Scott Lanning
2002-11-12 5:56 ` Randall Hyde
2002-11-28 6:15 ` Christian Hildner [this message]
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