Hello Simon, Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 7:45:00 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. i interpreted your words above as "we don't need to change mangler to support new compiler". if this needs a work, we shouldn't done it - afaiu, main users request is support of object code linking with MS compilers, not any speed breakthroughs -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc