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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: Accessing a register with a larger size from generic
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:01:36 +0000 (UTC)
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* David C. Hoos wrote:
>From: "Lutz Donnerhacke" <lutz@iks-jena.de>
>> type call_code is (KILL, FORK, EXIT, ...);
[...]
>>    Asm ("int $0x80",
>>         Outputs => long'Asm_Output ("=a", res),

>Could it be that you need to use a 'Size clause on
>the call_code type so as to make it 32 bits instead of 8 bits?
>
>The friendly compiler probably thinks it's helping you by
>making your enumeration type 8 bits wide (assuming there are
>less than 256 enumerates).

Exactly. But setting the size of an arbitary input type for a possible Asm
use, causes major problems when constructing predefined composite types of
those types.