LOL. And possibly ones about Cowboy programmers. (it's just where my mind went)
TTFN, Struan -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith Sent: Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:47 To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] Assembler Must be the "nearly Friday effect": I read that directive as: {$assmode intel} Which made me wonder what other settings might be valid for such a directive... :D (cue jokes about Big/Little Endians ... ) -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Todd Sent: Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:19 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Assembler Hi Paul I told a lie. {$asmmode intel} does work, but not if you foolishly put it inside the asm statement. Duh. However now I'm getting errors like Error: Asm: 16 or 32 Bit references not supported For simple statements like mov eax,[ebp] as well as MOV EAX,[EAX].TSparseList.FList Clearly it doesn't like the square brackets. Todd. > Hi all > > Bad form to reply to myself but... > > >> Looking on the freepascal site, here is a bug report (dated today no >> less) about some bugs in the freepascal assembler that are >> using intel syntax on x86_64. >> > Actually, it's not dated today - it's dated from last year. Mea culpa - > I was seeing the date at the top of the form which is just todays date - > date of viewing. > > >> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14862 >> >> So it would appear that it's definitely possible but possibly >> only in the latest builds or with a different switch to enable it? >> > Further to that, I note the product version in that report is 2.5.1 > which is the development codeline of freepascal, not the stable codeline > which is version 2.4.0 so it _might_ be that intel syntax for x84_64 > only exists in the 2.5.x development codeline. > > Cheers, > Paul. > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe DISCLAIMER: This electronic message together with any attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, do not copy, disclose or use the contents in any way. Please also advise us by return e-mail that you have received the message in error and then please destroy it together with its attachments. Carter Holt Harvey is not responsible for any changes made to this message and / or any attachments after sending by Carter Holt Harvey. We use virus scanning software but exclude all liability for viruses or anything similar in this email or any attachment. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe