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venus.w
venus.w

Reputation: 2251

Can a macro be used in inline asm?

code as following:

\#define CS 0x18

asm ("pushl CS"
    );

or something as an input argument:

asm("pushl %0 \n\t"

     :"m"(CS) \

    )

can the macro CS be used in the above inline asm code?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3394

Answers (2)

ady
ady

Reputation: 173

or build one inside the x86 asm

call macro1 ;from anywhere in asm code


.macro1
do stuff
ret

Upvotes: -1

ugoren
ugoren

Reputation: 16441

CS can be used in the second example, not the first.

Macros are substituted before the compiler/assembler work, so they work regardless of C or assembly.
But macros are not expanded in strings, so the first example won't work.

If you want to make the first example work, use stringization:

#define STR1(x) #x
#define STR(x) STR1(x)
asm ("pushl " STR(CS));

This expands STR(CS) to "0x18" and concatenates it with "pushl ".

Upvotes: 2

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