[XviD-devel] Am I crazy?
Radek Czyz
syskin at ihug.com.au
Mon Apr 19 06:49:36 CEST 2004
Hi everyone :)
I recently saw how PPC assembler code is done - using GCC intrinsics. An
idea crossed my mind... can we do the same for x86 assembly? I'm not
talking about intrinsics, but about usibg gcc instead of nasm.
Bad things:
- win32 people will have to download - and possibly setup - gcc, which
is so much bigger and uglier than beautiful nasm
- I'll have to fix all project files ;)
Good things:
- we can use C #defines, data structures.. - well all #includes
- we can create debug info for such files, which is soooo useful for
profiling
- we can use intrinsics, mix it with inline assembly and C
- ICL can compile GCC's intrinsics/assembler, and it can do cross-file
optimization, which effectively will INLINE assembler functions into C
Am I talkig crazy? Or maybe there is more bad things than I am seeing
right now?
:)
Regards,
Radek
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