Direct C function call using GCC’s inline assembly

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I got the answer from GCC’s mailing list:

asm("call %P0" : : "i"(callee));  // FIXME: missing clobbers

Now I just need to find out what %P0 actually means because it seems to be an undocumented feature…

Edit: After looking at the GCC source code, it’s not exactly clear what the code P in front of a constraint means. But, among other things, it prevents GCC from putting a $ in front of constant values. Which is exactly what I need in this case.

For this to be safe, you need to tell the compiler about all registers that the function call might modify, e.g. : "eax", "ecx", "edx", "xmm0", "xmm1", ..., "st(0)", "st(1)", ....

See Calling printf in extended inline ASM for a full x86-64 example of correctly and safely making a function call from inline asm.

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