On 15 October 2013 01:55, Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:45:38PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > > Yes, MinGW has GNU AS (It's part of binutils). I don't know why they've > > implemented it with MASM instead for the Windows platform. > > Problem: gas uses AT&T syntax, not MASM one. YASM/NASM could be a better > bet. > So? The syntax isn't a reason as they've used GNU AS for the linux port. > > But probably they choose MASM to use some Windows-specific trickery? The > context classes IIRC are for coroutine so they only should do > stack/register freezing but who knows... > > I suspect it's more a case of their Windows developer being familiar with MASM and so he wrote what he was comfortable in; But maybe there were other issues that forced their hand. Having said that, the AT&T syntax is absolutely awful. As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. > Wasn't MASM deprecated/unsupported for a long time anyway? > It still appears to be a current download from the Microsoft website. I've committed the change to temporarily disable building the context library until we can have a patch in place or similar to compile Boost with just GNU tools when using MinGW. I'll have a look at the GAL/P&S branch to see if we can pull this stuff in - unless it will get pulled in when these branches get merged in? Best Regards, Brian.
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