Re: Smpeg MMX asm compilation (problem)

[Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>]

Matthew Bentley wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:30:55PM +1200, Matthew Bentley wrote:
> >
> > > I'm building under msys, mingw.
> >
> > > .text
> > > .align 4
> > > .globl cpu_flags
> > > .type  cpu_flags,@function
> >
> > This is ELF assembly.  It won't work on mingw32, which uses COFF/PE.
> Thanks Daniel- I've been trying to figure that out for ages.
> Any way at all to compile ELF asm in windows?
> Or an easy way to convert the code to COFF?

instead of:
.type cpu_flags,@function
you write:
.def cpu_flags; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef

You can leave ".size" out.

You would be better off writting defines/macros for this.

Simplified example, from code found in some places in gnu sources:

#ifdef __ELF__
# define TYPE(x) .type x,@function
# define SIZE(x) .size x, . - x
#else
# define TYPE(x) .def x; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
# define SIZE(x)
#endif

Cheers,
Pedro Alves