Windows-native GHC

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Simon,

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 7:45:00 PM, you wrote:

>>>The reason for this was that I was assuming porting the mangler to understand
>>>MASM syntax would be a huge effort.  However, if we can use YASM or something
>>>else with GAS syntax, it might be feasible.  Still, going NCG-only is the
>>>preferred solution, and it's the direction we want to move in.
>> 
>> 
>> well, while C compilers generate better code - please try to support
>> them. in this particular case, -fvia-C will make accessible both MS
>> and Intel compilers, and the latter is the best C compiler at the
>> moment

> It'll need a *lot* of work in the mangler (that horrible Perl script) to support
> mangling the output from the MS/Intel compilers.

i interpreted your words above as "we don't need to change mangler to
support new compiler". if this needs a work, we shouldn't done it -
afaiu, main users request is support of object code linking with MS
compilers, not any speed breakthroughs


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com