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Message-ID: <20130724004823.GI4542@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 04:48:23 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Parallella: bcrypt
Katja,
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:08:37AM +0200, Katja Malvoni wrote:
> Does e-gcc support specifying input, output and modified registers as gcc
> inline assembly does? I couldn't make it work using the following syntax:
>
> __asm__(
> ...instructions...
> : output registers
> : input registers
> : clobbered registers
> );
As Yaniv has confirmed, this definitely should work.
> First error I get is for colon.
Maybe you forgot to enclose the instructions in double quotes?
> Is there a way to reference C variable from inline assembly?
Yes. For your needs, this is best done via those input/output registers
specifications.
> If not, how can I safely implement part of C code in assembly? (more
> precisely BF_ROUND)
The above is how you do it.
> I tried to do that using macro but the problem is that assembly code around
> macro changes and my implementation is not reliable because e-gcc generated
> code sometimes uses different registers when other C code is changed.
Of course, you must not rely on specific register allocations by the
compiler. Instead, you use the "%0", etc. placeholders in your inline
assembly, and map those to local variable names (which are actually
registers, since gcc will try to put all it reasonably can in registers).
> How are function arguments passed?
When you use inline assembly, you should not be concerned about that.
(You would be if you were writing the entire function in assembly in a
separate .S or .s file.) With inline assembly, you simply use the "%0",
etc. placeholders, and gcc takes care of substituting the right register
names into its assembly output.
Actually, I think Yaniv's responses were sufficient, but maybe you'd
find the above helpful as well.
Alexander
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