Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Simon,
Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 12:19:29 PM, you wrote:
The reason for this was that I was assuming porting the mangler to understand
MASM syntax would be a huge effort. However, if we can use YASM or something
else with GAS syntax, it might be feasible. Still, going NCG-only is the
preferred solution, and it's the direction we want to move in.
well, while C compilers generate better code - please try to support
them. in this particular case, -fvia-C will make accessible both MS
and Intel compilers, and the latter is the best C compiler at the
moment
It'll need a *lot* of work in the mangler (that horrible Perl script) to support
mangling the output from the MS/Intel compilers. And it's not even worth the
effort unless you put some work into the back-end to generate C code that can be
optimised better by a C compiler. So personally I don't think this is a
profitable direction. If someone else did the work, then we'll happily
incorporate it, although I'm not sure we should commit to supporting the mangler
indefinitely - it's already a significant source of breakage and incompatibility
between GHC and GCC versions.
Cheers,
Simon
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