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Report #: 3627

Status: Withdrawn

documentation for asm

Project: Delphi

Build #: 1

Version: 7.0

Submitted By: Brad White

Report Type: Suggestion / Enhancement Request

Date Reported: 2/26/2003 12:16:51 PM

Severity: Commonly encountered problem

Last Updated: 11/22/2005 7:56:51 AM

Platform: All platforms

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Resolution: None

Resolved in Build: : None

Duplicate of: None

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Overall Rating: (9 Total Ratings)

2.44 out of 5

Total Votes: None

Description

We know Delphi and BCB come with no docs for ASM.
It should.

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Comments

Wolfgang Junker at 2/27/2003 9:09:42 AM -

Please be a bit more specific. (That will raise your ratings as well.)

Are you interested in:
- documentation of the "asm" statement? (It was documented at least in D1, D2, D4 and D6.)
- documentation of the x86 assembler code (That's far beyond the scope of any Delphi documentation.)
- documentation of the limitations of the built-in assembler. (That's indeed a week point of Delphi's docs.)

Stefan Hoffmeister at 2/28/2003 3:23:12 PM -

There is a complete section in the documentation:

Help Contents
Delphi Language Guide
Inline Assembly Code

On the first page of the documentation, you can find this sentence:

<quote>
The built-in assembler allows you to write assembly code within Delphi programs. It has the following features:

Allows for inline assembly

Supports all instructions found in the Intel Pentium III, Intel MMX extensions, Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE), and the AMD Athlon (including 3D Now!)

Provides no macro support, but allows for pure assembly function procedures

Permits the use of Delphi identifiers, such as constants, types, and variables in assembly statements
</quote>

Please review the documentation provided by AMD and Intel at no cost for information on which specific instructions are available, and how these are to be used.

Borland documentation expands on these basic documentation sets by providing information on how to use, for instance, expressions or labels.

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