[SDL] Calling SDL from assembly on Windows

[Shawn Lindberg]

Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:44:33PM -0500, Shawn Lindberg wrote:
> 
>>I'm trying to call SDL functions from assembly code, and assemble it 
>>with NASM and link it using MinGW under Windows.  I've gotten it to 
>>assemble and link just fine, but when I run the program it crashes.  I 
>>think I'm just missing something.  Here's the assembly code:
> 
> 
> Compile it in C, and look at the assembly with "objdump -S"; see what
> you're doing differently.

I don't have time to try this at the moment, but thanks for the suggestion.

> That aside, why are you doing this?  I can't think of any interesting
> reason to want to make SDL calls from assembly; at application level
> these days, assembly is for time-critical inner loops, and time-critical
> inner loops don't generally make SDL calls.

It's for a class.  The class is on x86 assembly, and it's got all these 
Windows specific library functions to use.  I thought I could make it 
better by using SDL to make the library functions more portable.

Shawn Lindberg