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Subject: Re: [boost] [1.51][Release] Short release cycle
From: Oliver Kowalke (oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-08 16:36:46


Hello Jürgen,

> Hi Oliver,
>
> On Thursday, 5. July 2012 20:00:48 Oliver Kowalke wrote:
>> The syntax could be transformed into NASM syntax but the problem is that
>> each assembler has its own syntax and
>> I beleive it is likly that I'm faced to requests to support assembler
>> 'xyz' on platform 'abc' too.
> Yes, I can understand where this might lead to.
Another reason I remember is that MASM allows to specify the exception
handler and MASM does the required operations
for the Win64-ExeptionHandling (pseudo-operations to create .pdata and
.xdata etc.).
I believe with gcc I would have to do all this stuff be myself.

regards,
Oliver


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