On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> writes: > > But the failure mode is assembling assembler source - GMP should > arrange to not use the compiler driver to assemble but to call > an assembler directly for assembler source. > > Are you volunteering to do this work?
No ;) > It will be a massive undertaking to bring things back to the current > level of functionality. > > Why is that? Because you will need to pass lots of different ISA and > ABI slecting options to the assemblers. And many systems have several > "as" which ar incompatible. > > You should expect to spend at least one month on this project. > > (yes, the compiler > driver knows which assembler to use, so it's certainly convenient > to use it - but I can see people using a compiler with a built-in > assembler that expects Intel assembler operand ordering instead > of AT&T?) > > I can "see" many hypothetical problems too. Since I co-maintain a > complex piece of software, I need to spend my time on real problems, > though... It was just a suggestion - if I'd implement it I would default to the compiler driver for the assembler call but allow a different assembler to be specified via configure. tcc people can then tell configure to use gcc as assembler. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> SUSE / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend _______________________________________________ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel
