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Article #37Re: Assembler Language and OS/2
From: Pat Bozeman
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 10:54
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 10:54
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In article <0HcBTB1w164w@geloser.login.qc.ca> rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte) writes: >Hiya folks! > >I was just wondering.... I am starting to program in assembler in dos >and liking it (must be my masochist(sp?) side...(-; ), so I was >wondering if most of the interrupt of the dos are the same with OS/2. > >Is it as easy to program in asm FOR Os/2 development? Can I use Turbo >Assembler then the lnik that came with OS/2 for creating OS/2 prg? >And Finally, is ther some interrupt list specific for OS/2 like the one >that exist for Dos (i.e Mr. Brown I think, 1.6Mb list) ? > OS/2 does not use interupts. You make system calls through macros. I have never looked at what the macros expand to (because I have never done any pure assembler programing in OS/2) but I would assume that they jump to a specific address in memory which contains a re-enterant piece of code which makes kernel requests. Does anyone know how this really works? -- Pat Bozeman peb@pebble.gentoo.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!boo!seer!pebble.gentoo.com!peb From: peb@pebble.gentoo.com (Pat Bozeman) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: Assembler Language and OS/2 Distribution: world Message-ID: <720269681peb.postmast@pebble.gentoo.com> Sender: postmast@pebble.gentoo.com Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 10:54:41 GMT References: <0HcBTB1w164w@geloser.login.qc.ca> Organization: ICS Lines: 23