Re: Assembler Language

["Foz" <nospam [at] mmu.ac.uk>]

> 
> Do you mean making system calls in assembly? Or are you talking
The O/S calls. I presume that the BIOS calls are the same for DOS 
and Linux. (Is that a false presumtion?)

> about hardware interrupts? For the former, the best you can do
> is to read the source (linux/arch/i386/* and include/syscall.h).
> I can't remember the registers, but you stick the arguments on
> the stack and put the system call number in either ax or dx. Then
> make the interrupt. If you're talking about hardware interrupts,
> then you've pretty much had it. You don't get to see them.
Nah, just the OS calls. I've tasted effiency and speed, and I'm 
hooked.


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