On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > > Problem: gas uses AT&T syntax, not MASM one. YASM/NASM could be a better > > bet. > > > > So? The syntax isn't a reason as they've used GNU AS for the linux port.
Duh... I don't know then:D unless MASM has some magic trick for interfacing with Windows... > Having said that, the AT&T syntax is absolutely awful. Naaah... it's mostly flipping source/destination and qualifying sizes; since many other processor follow this route it's only an habit issue. OTOH ARM assembly is ugly as hell (but it wasn't designed to be hand written/read, so there is some logic in that). > As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. Well, can't say it is a good thing... as a workaround maybe supplying precompiled (preassembled!) object for that couple of file could be useful, too. -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp