On Thursday, 5. July 2012 20:00:48 Oliver Kowalke wrote:
The syntax could be transformed into NASM syntax but the problem is that each assembler has its own syntax and I beleive it is likly that I'm faced to requests to support assembler 'xyz' on platform 'abc' too.
Yes, I can understand where this might lead to.
Therefore I decided to support only a standard assembler on a platform. (MASM is distributed with the Windows SDKs)
And there are people out there not using the SDK, but mingw-w64. And the interesting question is: How do I cross-compile Boost.Context from Linux to Windows? Setting up an Wine driven MASM call and linking the resulting files with a cross-gcc/clang toolchain might be a real challenge.
I can fully understand not to support every compiler/assembler combination. I think that gcc/clang and gas are special cases especially when considering cross compilation.
+1 Regards, Nate