GCC inline assembly

Question

I tried an example from GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO

int main(void)
{
    int foo = 10, bar=15;
    _asm__volatile_( "addl %%ebx,%%eax;\n"
                   :"=a"(foo)
                   :"a"(foo), "b"(bar));
    printf("foo+bar+%d\n",foo);
    return 0;
 }

the above code gives me this error : add_two.c:8:3: error: expected ')' before ':' token .

where have i gone wrong? I am working on ubuntu 12.04 .

Answer 1

_asm__volatile_( "addl %%ebx,%%eax;\n"

...is not correct syntax. asm and volatile are separate keywords.

__asm__ __volatile__( "addl %%ebx,%%eax;\n"

...compiles (and executes with correct result).