Hi Everyone,
 I'm having some trouble getting an IDT loaded into the processor.
I though
that the lidt instruction took a pointer (e.g. 32-bits), but dmd only
compiles
my code if I pass it a 64-bit argument. What is this argument supposed
to be?

 Thanks a lot.
  Braden

See the example at: http://osdev.neopages.net/tutorials/interrupts.3.php (Scroll down to the bottom). Here, NASM takes a pointer to a 6-byte structure for its lidt instruction. I don't see why D asks for an 8 byte parameter.

Braden MacDonald wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>  I'm having some trouble getting an IDT loaded into the processor.
> I thought that the lidt instruction took a pointer (e.g. 32-bits), but
> dmd only compiles my code if I pass it a 64-bit argument. What is this
> argument supposed  to be?
> 
>  Thanks a lot.
>   Braden

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Braden MacDonald

I'll check it out. In the meantime, you can just use db's to put in the right bits for the instruction you want.

In article <c9mp8b$1vlp$2@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> Braden says...
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I'm having some trouble getting an IDT loaded into the processor.
> > I thought that the "lidt" instruction took a pointer (e.g. 32-bits),
> > but dmd only compiles my code if I pass it a 64-bit argument.
> > What is this argument supposed to be?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> >  Braden
> 
>I'll check it out. In the meantime, you can just use db's to put in the right bits for the instruction you want.

 Any updates on this?  If not, how do db's using D inline assembler?