[Vm-dev] unit code for new faster bitblt

[Casey Ransberger]

Is it minor variance in syntax or are we talking the difference between
at&t and intel assembler? How much assembly code is there? I wasn't able to
find anything on this asasm, can you point me at something?


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:01 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
> Sigh. There always has to be some fly in your nice new ointment, doesn't
> there?
>
> I've been trying to make the faster blt for the StackVM and having a
> rather unpleasant time trying to make any sense of auto* (but then it seems
> that is standard). The *really* annoying thing I've just
> discovered/realised is that we will need to get the assembler sources
> re-worked by the author in order to work with the standard 'gas' assembler,
> rather than relying on having asasm installed. I had no idea that source
> would be incompatible…
>
> So, in the plain interpreter there is no current practical problem since
> the cmake fragments are set up to see if you are building on an ARM, which
> isn't completely satisfactory but decently 'safe'. And anyway, Ian hasn't
> added them to the SVN yet.
>
> tim
> --
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>
>
>


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Casey Ransberger
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