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Date:      Thu, 09 Oct 1997 12:05:24 -0700
From:      Greg Shenaut <greg@myrtle.bogs.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel MMX programming 
Message-ID:  <199710091905.MAA06932@myrtle.bogs.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 10:40:11 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009103836.3036P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009103836.3036P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>, Doug White cleopede:
>On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Mikhail Chernomordik wrote:
>
>> How have I to develope C-programms using inline 
>> MASM and MMX commands under FreeBSD?
>> Lets GNU C compiler make it?
>
>Assembly under UNIX isn't the same as it is under DOS, since you have
>other programs wanting to use the CPU and you can't muck it up for them.
>
>You can't use Microsoft Assembler bits since tehre is no MASM for FreeBSD.
>If there was, there'd be no NT.  :-)  
>
>gcc does allow inline asm, but again, it's a different format.  Check out
>the info system for gas docs or contact hackers@freebsd.org.

Allow me to comment that I have used masm and tasm, plus Borland tc 2.1,
for years under BSDI's doscmd--once the port of doscmd is complete to
FreeBSD, you can expect to have the option of using it for msdos compiles.

-Greg Shenaut



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