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Plasma Mon Nov 13 2006 at 5:18 pm
the problem is

assembly is platform-specific while C is not. The only way to use XMS functions in C is exactly the way they are used with assembly: call int 2F, get the XMM address, and then call the XMM with the parameters in the registers. The only way to directly manipulate registers in C is with inline assembly. You may find a third-party XMS library for C that does this for you, but there are no "standard" XMS functions for C.

I guess my question is why are you trying to convert everything to C? This is obviously real-mode DOS code, so it's not even close to being portable as it is.

MASM611 - Hartmut (Sat Nov 11 2006 at 11:35 am)

An "assembly to C" translator is essentially a decompiler - Plasma (Sun Nov 12 2006 at 5:49 am)
- Assembler to C - Hartmut (Sun Nov 12 2006 at 2:34 pm)
  - if it's only a couple hundred lines - Plasma (Sun Nov 12 2006 at 10:32 pm)
    - ...easy to answer - Hartmut (Mon Nov 13 2006 at 3:59 pm)
      - the problem is - Plasma (Mon Nov 13 2006 at 5:18 pm)

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