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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/2013 07:55 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio 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,


I use sprint, so at least *my* phone bill won't be affected.


> not MASM one. YASM/NASM could be a better
> bet.
> 
> 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...
> 
> Wasn't MASM deprecated/unsupported for a long time anyway?
>