From: "Bill Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> 5) Rewrite the x86 assembly to use NASM (possibly FASM, but there is
> a
> bootstrapping issue with the source code for that, NASM is written in
> C, so no bootstrapping problems there).

> Q. What about Apple and Microsoft support?
>
> A. We want to support Apple's XCode and Microsoft's MSVC as first
> class citizens and are willing to work around linker/compiler issues
> to a reasonable extent. Watch the list for further discussion of
> this.

I'm not sure about Apple, but for Windows YASM seems to be a better choice 
than NASM. In particular, Brian Gladman used it for his Windows port of GMP 
and MPFR, see

http://fp.gladman.plus.com/computing/gmp4win.htm

Alec 


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