GCC support for Intel asm + NT DDK [Re: Beta version of new X-server]

[Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>]

Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:51:00PM -0500, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
> >It has a lot of Intel ASM code which compiles only with Windows NT DDK.
> >GCC cannot handle it.
> 
> Ah.  Of course.  That's understandable.
> 
> I keep hearing about a project to make as understand Microsoft's
> (or is it Intel's?) asm syntax but it never seems to happen.

Current binutils as seems to understand some Intel syntax, but I haven't
looked into how complete the support is.

In addition to the asm issue, NT DDK requires a few features that are 
not supported by gcc right. The first one I can think of is the support
for "fastcall" calling convention, which is very similar to regparm 
in gcc. I have partially tested code to implement the code, but never 
submitted it. Perhaps it's time to dig, polish, test, etc. I believe
NT DDK code uses the "native" subsystem, or something like that, and
we may need to tweak the linker scripts as well.

Regards,
Mumit