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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 14, 2013 4:45 PM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> On 14 October 2013 22:36, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> For now just comment out context.  We won't need it until building GAL
P&S.  Does mingw come with an assembler.  Does it suppprt inline asm?
>>
>> Ther are only a coulple of small files to assemble.
>>
>> Enabling context was a trial balloon.  Seems to have accomplished its
goal.
>
>
> Excellent, will do.
>
> 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.

Specifically, for the MINGW buld environment, which could be a linux hosted
cross.  What then?

Duh.

>
> Thanks for the quick response Dick.
>
> Best Regards, Brian.