MS/CW-style inline assembly for GCC

Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
Fri May 7 20:02:00 GMT 2004


Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>
>I would still like to further discuss the possibility of a separate
>text translation tool, since I think that would address the valid
>concerns of the gcc developers.  It may well be that people at Apple
>have already seen the fatal flaw to this approach, but I haven't seen
>it expressed here yet.
>
Well, cfront demonstrates that almost anything can be done with a
separate text translation tool. :-)

In any case, I originally proposed this as a documented addition to
GCC, irrespective of how it's implemented. So let's finish thinking
about this in terms of whether and how the user manual is going to
change, before deciding about the best way to write the code.

Stan



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