Michael Petch

Michael Petch has asked 11 questions and find answers to 272 problems.

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Software engineer and software architect. I can be reached at [email protected].

Michael Petch questions

What do the constraints "Rah" and "Ral" mean in extended inline assembly?
Solution needed for building a static IDT and GDT at assemble/compile/link time
Understanding Inline assembly in a pre-processor macro vs Inline assembly in a function
GCC code that seems to break inline assembly rules but an expert believes otherwise
Problem switching to v8086 mode from 32-bit protected mode by setting EFLAGS.VM to 1
Near call/jump tables don't always work in a bootloader
Should using MOV instruction to set SS to 0x0000 cause fault #GP(0) in 64-bit mode?
Legacy BIOS bootloader to bootstrap real-mode code in second stage

Michael Petch answers

Unrecognised emulation mode: elf_i386 on MinGW32
Calling a standard-library-function in MASM
Floppy Read (AH=0x2, int 0x13) doesn't complete
Loading and running a raw binary file with 32-bit code in QEMU
Why doesn't the GCC assembly output generate a .GLOBAL for printf
Combine 32- and 64bit DLLs in one program
How to get an objdump without NUL bytes?
INT 13, 2 hanging on x86 real mode when trying to read sectors from floppy drive
USB hard disk emulation cause a disk read to fail (BIOS int 13)?
bochs: can not load bootloader using a floppy image