By all means. Note that many of the assembly files are present in more than
one location, so it is worth diffing files first, then converting one
version, then copying.

Bill.


On 15 February 2014 15:34, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:27:21 AM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> However, converting all that code could take quite some time. There's
>> probably something like 30 unique .as (yasm format) files.
>>
>
> I could surely help, and that would give me more knowledge of assembly
> code.
>

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