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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