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From: Maciej Hrebien <m_hrebien@wp.pl>
Subject: Re: changing system time - 'struct' implementation in asm
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 09:53:12 +0200
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Slack Traq wrote:
> 
> How do you make a struct in assembly????

<gas in .data or .bss>

timv: .long 0  # tv_sec
      .long 0  # tv_usec

<gas locally on stack>

# ...

pushl $0  # tv_usec
pushl $0  # tv_sec

# ...

$timv or %esp points to your timeval struct. If you want timv to be not
local, write .globl/.global timv.

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Maciej Hrebien