Re: looking for ASM stuff

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, roger tunnicliffe wrote:
> > > Help ????
> > >
> > > I am looking for doco for calling ncurses using assembler. At the moment
> > > i am using a debugger to view compiled c code and working it out from
> > > there but it is proving tedious. Can you help ???
> >
> > not really - it's been quite a while since I programmed in assembler.
>
> fortunately ncurses is not special ... you'd access it from assembly like any
> other C library ... in other words, google for the topic of calling C
> functions for whatever architecture you're using from assembly and it will be
> applicable

yes - but I recall seeing some recent comments in newsgroup from someone
who was complaining about finding the details of the struct-offsets,
due to the macros and ifdef's, so I had that in mind.

He might try pstruct (from perl) - except that I recall it not working
for quite a while (several years...).  A quick check shows it's still 
broken, e.g., this fragment for WINDOW:

struct _win_st {
  char               _win_st._cury[40]          0       2
  char               _win_st._curx[40]          2       2
  char               _win_st._maxy[40]          4       2
  char               _win_st._maxx[40]          6       2
  char               _win_st._begy[40]          8       2
  char               _win_st._begx[40]         10       2
  char               _win_st._flags[40]        12       2
                     _win_st._attrs            16       4
                     _win_st._bkgd             20       4
}

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