On 31 July 2013 21:06, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bonus question: what are the differences betwen the x86 and x86w dirs (and > subdirs) (and x86_64 and x86_64w dirs (and subdirs))? >
The w is for Windows. The ABI is different, so all the assembly needs to be rewritten. > > On plain x86, is it only the asm syntax? > I don't recall. I doubt it. > So that YASM gets used everywhere for the x86w dir, whereas GNU as gets > also used for the x86 dir? > Yes. > (And for x86_64w I guess the very nice idea of having different ABI on > Linux and Windows also comes into play...) > Yes. > > I could have a look myself, but I'm sure some of you can give a very nice > explanation! > > Thanks in advance, > Best, > > JP > > Additional bonus question: among the mingw flavours, which are supported > (or known to work)? I mean among legacy mingw(32), i686-w64-mingw and > x86_64-w64-mingw? > From very quick testing, I'd say the latter (kind of) work, the middle one > does not, and I did not test the first one (Ubuntu does not want to install > both falvours at the same time! it seems that Debian is nicer though). None are supported or known to work. They keep breaking it, every single version. Bill. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
