Re: [pygame] ASM code in pygame

[Richard Goedeken <SirRichard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah I was afraid of something like that.  The constraints are the killer.  It's 
really not that big of deal to translate AT&T<-->Intel inline code; I've done 
lots of it.  I can do the translation for the next release.

Richard

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> When you offered to write Intel versions of the AT&T code I looked for a 
> way to automate some of  the translation process. So I tried using the 
> -masm=intel and -S compiler options to translate the inline assembly 
> code and write it to an .s file. The inlined instructions were simply 
> copied. So it is unlikely gcc can handle VC like __asm statements, where 
> the compiler definitely needs to understand assembly code. The MSDN does 
> say the VC compiler has a built in assembler. gcc compilers only 
> generates assembly output for the next stage in the compilation process. 
> So I tried compiling a simple assembly code example in MSDN which calls 
> printf, and gcc C did not recognize the __asm keyword. Finally, I just 
> found a mingw-users thread* where Thomas Heller of ctypes fame was 
> looking for a inline assembly formated recognized by both gcc and VC. No 
> luck. The advice was to use assembly files and a free assembler like 
> NASM or as. Not helpful when distutils doe not directly support 
> assembler files. This is not promising.
>
>
> Lenard