Oh wait, it's not so simple. We use the Windows assembly on MinGW and
Cygwin!

Oh well. So much for that idea.

Bill.


On 15 February 2014 16:08, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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