Setting class variable from inline assembly

[pmoore]

Thomas,

You are right. Now that I think about it again it would be impossible for the
compiler to know at runtime what the address of a class local variable would be
so it makes sense to be an offset.

Thanks for taking the time to point this out.


In article <1qv6k3-m9f.ln1 at birke.kuehne.cn>, Thomas Kuehne says...
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>Thomas Kuehne schrieb am 2006-05-21:
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>> pmoore schrieb am 2006-05-20:
>>> Hi,
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>>> It seems that within inline assembly I can read a class variable but I can't set
>>> it. Is this a bug or is there a good reason for this?
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>> What you are looking for is:
>> #       void* p = this;
>> # 
>> #       asm{
>> #          mov EBX, p;
>> #          mov EAX, [EBX+myvar2];
>> #          // something productive here
>> #          mov [EBX+myvar2], EBX;
>> #       }
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>The last line should have been:
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>mov [EBX+myvar2], EAX;
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>Thomas
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