Borland x86 inlined assembler; get a label's address?

Question

I am using Borland Turbo C++ with some inlined assembler code, so presumably Turbo Assembler (TASM) style assembly code. I wish to do the following:

void foo         


        

Answer 1

Everything I can find about Borland suggests this ought to work. Similar questions on other sites (here and here) suggest that Borland can handle forward-references for labels, but insists on labels being outside asm blocks. However, as your label was already outside the asm block...

I am curious whether your compiler would allow you to use this label within, for instance, a jmp instruction. When toying around with it (admittedly, on a completely different compiler), I found a pesky tendency for the compiler to complain about operand types.

The syntax is quite different, and it's my first attempt at inline asm in a long time, but I believe I've munged this enough to work under gcc. Perhaps, despite the differences, this might be of some use to you:

#include 
int main()
{
    void *too = &&SomeLabel;
    unsigned int out;
    asm
    (
      "movl %0, %%eax;"
      :"=a"(out)
      :"r"(&&SomeLabel)
    );
SomeLabel:
    printf("Result: %p %x\n", too, out);

    return 0;
}

This generates:

...
        movl    $.L2, %eax
...
.L2:

The && operator is a non-standard extension, I wouldn't expect it to work anywhere other than gcc. Hopefully this may have stirred up some new ideas... Good luck!

Edit: Though it's listed as Microsoft specific, here is another instance of jumping to labels.