The Windows assembly won't be changed. Yasm will still be used for that.

Bill.


On 15 February 2014 01:35, Dann Corbit <dcor...@connx.com> wrote:

>  *From:* mpir-devel@googlegroups.com [mailto:mpir-devel@googlegroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Bill Hart
> *Sent:* Friday, February 14, 2014 3:27 PM
> *To:* mpir-devel
> *Subject:* [mpir-devel] C code cleanup done
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> today I went through all the C code in the mpn directory and cleaned it
> up. This mostly meant adding whitespace in code that was extremely cramped.
>
>
>
> It's much easier to see what the code does now, which should make it
> easier to maintain.
>
>
>
> The other day I commented some of the assembly code, but I gave up since
> there is just so much of it. We'll add more comments to assembly code with
> each new release of MPIR.
>
>
>
> I'm also thinking of converting all the yasm code in the *nix x86_64
> directory to gas format and ditching yasm. This would be better in the long
> run. It's already been converted to Windows and no one is currently writing
> lots of new assembly code. MPIR would therefore be easier to maintain
> without yasm.
>
> >>
>
> How will you build mpir with Microsoft's Visual Studio compilers if you
> remove the yasm stuff?  Or is there a way for Microsoft to compile gas
> formatted assembly language now?
>
> <<
>
> However, converting all that code could take quite some time. There's
> probably something like 30 unique .as (yasm format) files.
>
>
>
> Bill.
>
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