Re: MS/CW-style inline assembly for GCC

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Mike Stump wrote:

> On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 06:40 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> > If Apple checks in these extensions, in any way that touches code 
> > outside of darwin.[hc],
>
>
> Then lets explore ways in which we can architect the code so that we 
> can achieve this extension in such that it doesn't.  If we can manage 
> to find a way, we all win.  We can simply require that Stan do all the 
> work and come up with a lean thin interface down into port files.  If 
> he can, we're set, if not, Apple local it is.
>
> Does that sounds reasonable?

Yes.  I don't think people could much object to a nice clean 
Darwin-specific patch (with appropriate documentation of course). 

(And, if you succeed in doing that you'll have no problem maintaining it 
off on the side if you really need to do that. :-))

Here's an implementation suggestion: add "MD_SRC_REORG" which gets 
called at program start-up and replaces the input file with a new input 
file.  Have MD_SRC_REORG for Darwin invoke a separate CW-asm-to-GCC-asm 
converter program. :-) :-)

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