Re: [mpir-devel] Re: [BSDNT] pcc

2010-05-17 Thread Antony Vennard
On 05/17/2010 12:01 PM, Cactus wrote: > > > On May 17, 11:13 am, Antony Vennard wrote: >> Hi Brian, > > [snip] > >> As I understand it, mingw (gcc on windows) has the same problem - it >> doesn't support x86-64 compilation. I'm not 100% on that - last I tried >> msys on win64 was about two ye

[mpir-devel] Re: [BSDNT] pcc

2010-05-17 Thread Cactus
On May 17, 11:13 am, Antony Vennard wrote: > Hi Brian, [snip] > As I understand it, mingw (gcc on windows) has the same problem - it > doesn't support x86-64 compilation. I'm not 100% on that - last I tried > msys on win64 was about two years ago and back then msys itself just seg > faulted wh

Re: [mpir-devel] Re: [BSDNT] pcc

2010-05-17 Thread Antony Vennard
Hi Brian, Thanks for that, having slept on it I think you're right. My concern, waking up this morning and thinking about it was not generating assembly from C code (this is a case of applying specs) but producing something that is optimised - a key part of writing anything that relies on speed, r

[mpir-devel] Re: [BSDNT] pcc

2010-05-16 Thread Cactus
On May 17, 12:04 am, Antony Vennard wrote: > Hi All, > > Regarding BSDNT (BSD Licensed MPIR) I think Bill mentioned targetting > pcc earlier on in conversation (cl/icc/gcc have also been mentioned as I > remember it). One thing that was suggested was porting pcc to Win64, > something I've been h