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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 October 2013 01:55, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>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.