On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Aaron Gray wrote:> Hi Chris, > > It would be good to get to try to get it as functional as possible > at some point, before abandoning it..maye once I have one the COFF > backend.I'm not proposing to remove COFF support from the asmprinter, just masm support. Using gas will continue to work fine.> Anyway I wll report back when I have a proper overview of the area, > it would be good if you could also look into the problem so contact > me back if you are, also it maybe a good idea to share this with > Anton and Evan.I already spoke to anton. The MASM support is clearly broken, it generates .s files with typos for the directives and has other problems. Anton thinks it should be removed. -Chris
>> Anyway I wll report back when I have a proper overview of the area, >> it would be good if you could also look into the problem so contact >> me back if you are, also it maybe a good idea to share this with >> Anton and Evan. > > I already spoke to anton. The MASM support is clearly broken, it > generates .s files with typos for the directives and has other > problems. Anton thinks it should be removed.The reason is pretty simple: masm is too weak to support anything non-trivial and unfortunatley there is no simple way to fix the stuff. -- With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University
2009/8/3 Anton Korobeynikov <anton at korobeynikov.info>> >> Anyway I wll report back when I have a proper overview of the area, > >> it would be good if you could also look into the problem so contact > >> me back if you are, also it maybe a good idea to share this with > >> Anton and Evan. > > > > I already spoke to anton. The MASM support is clearly broken, it > > generates .s files with typos for the directives and has other > > problems. Anton thinks it should be removed. > The reason is pretty simple: masm is too weak to support anything > non-trivial and unfortunatley there is no simple way to fix the stuff. >The strainge thing is I believe VisualStudio can generate code through it !:) Anyway I agree cut it for now as it is non functonal. Aaron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20090803/0cf2d505/attachment.html>