MS/CW-style inline assembly for GCC

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 06:32:17PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> Would you be willing entertain letting it in and let Apple people 
> maintain it?

We can certainly arrange for the actual asm parsing bits to be
cleanly separated.  Indeed, if pressed I could pull out the MSVC
stuff from Cygnus' second implementation and you could re-use that.
The parsing bits were the only thing I was moderately happy about
in the result of that project.

HOWEVER, I disbelieve that will be the end of the line.  I predict
that random little turds will appear all over the optimizers, and
this prospect does not please me at all.  This eventuallity means
that we /can't/ just let Apple people maintain it; it becomes
everyone's problem.

If you can convince me that my MSVC experience (see response to Stan)
won't apply to CW, I might be ameanable.  But didn't Stan say yall
want MSVC support for darwin/x86 too?  You'd have to come up with a
fantastically better implementation than we did at Cygnus for me to
want to let that in.


r~