On Oct 15, 2013 8:18 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 15 October 2013 01:55, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcanto...@logossrl.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:45:38PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> > Yes, MinGW has GNU AS (It's part of binutils). I don't know why they've >> > implemented it with MASM instead for the Windows platform. >> >> 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. > >> >> >> But probably they choose MASM to use some Windows-specific trickery? The >> context classes IIRC are for coroutine so they only should do >> stack/register freezing but who knows... >> > > I suspect it's more a case of their Windows developer being familiar with MASM and so he wrote what he was comfortable in;
Sure, this was probably a weenie that did the initial patch for MSVC. Possibly it was the first version of the context support. But instead of making him do a walk of shame for bringing assembly language into a C++ project, the others did linux and mac ports in binutils. Nobody thought about going back for mingw, cross building with mingw from non windows. Was setjmp longjmp discussed? Was a walk of shame discussed? But maybe there were other issues that forced their hand. > > Having said that, the AT&T syntax is absolutely awful. > > As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. > > >> >> Wasn't MASM deprecated/unsupported for a long time anyway? > > > It still appears to be a current download from the Microsoft website. > > I've committed the change to temporarily disable building the context library until we can have a patch in place or similar to compile Boost with just GNU tools when using MinGW. > > I'll have a look at the GAL/P&S branch to see if we can pull this stuff in - unless it will get pulled in when these branches get merged in? > > Best Regards, > > Brian. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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