[fpc-pascal] rotating bits

[Tomas Hajny]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 24 mei 2006, at 17:09, ����
�О�а�ов�киК wrote:
>
>>> function brol(b: byte; c: byte): byte; assembler; inline;
>>> asm
>>>   rolb  %cl,%al
>>> end;
>>> (and similarly for all the other functions). The first parameter
>>> goes to
>>> eax, the second to ecx, and the result is supposed to be in eax
>>> again.
>>> Tomas
>>
>> Did you test it?
>>
>> It does not work for me (one-liner).
>>
>> ("result" line does not seem to be needed, but calling conventions
>> used seem to be somewhat different).
>
> First parameter is in eax, second in edx (third one is ecx)

Yes, of course, sorry for confusion... :-( Anyway, loading of the first
parameter can be still skipped (and the stack frame is probably not useful
in this case either). So you'd get:

function brol(b: byte; c: byte): byte; assembler; nostackframe;
asm
  movb  %dl,%cl
  rolb  %cl,%al
end ['cl'];


Tomas