For the sake of curiosity I'm trying to read the flag register and print it out in a nice way.

I've tried reading it using gcc's asm keyword, but i can't get it to work. Any hints how to do it? I'm running a Intel Core 2 Duo and Mac OS X. The following code is what I have. I hoped it would tell me if an overflow happened:

#include 

int main (void){
  int a=10, b=0, bold=0;
  printf("%d\n",b);
  while(1){
    a++;
  __asm__ ("pushf\n\t"
   "movl 4(%%esp), %%eax\n\t"
   "movl %%eax , %0\n\t"
   :"=r"(b)      
   :         
   :"%eax"        
   ); 
  if(b!=bold){ 
    printf("register changed \n %d\t to\t %d",bold , b);
  }
  bold = b;
  }
}

This gives a segmentation fault. When I run gdb on it I get this:

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x000000005fbfee5c
0x0000000100000eaf in main () at asm.c:9
9       asm ("pushf \n\t"