Re^2: [OT] Building Math::Pari on M$ Windows

Thanks almut, cdarke for the /E tip. It revealed that there's a function called 'gpsi' in the pari source, and I guess that was the root of the problem the compiler was having with the 'gpsi' identifier. I couldn't find out (didn't look too hard) what was changing the name of the identifier from 'lpsi' to 'gpsi' - in the end I just changed the 2 occurrences of 'lpsi' in WinUser.h to 'lxpsi' and that got me passed that hurdle.

Next problem was:

kernel1.c(223) : error C4235: nonstandard extension used : '__asm' key
+word not supported on this architecture
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Is that telling me that inlining of assembly code is not supported on this architecture ? Or does it just mean that one needs to use a different keyword and/or technique to inline assembly code ?

Finally, I tried a straight C build (no asm). That compiled ok, but resulted in a number of segfaults and test failures during the running of the test suite.

I think I'll just settle for the 32-bit build - ftm, anyway.

Cheers,
Rob
Update:"ftm" eq "for the moment". (I think there are some who might have thought it meant something else :-)

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Re^3: [OT] Building Math::Pari on M$ Windows by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 04, 2007 at 03:36 UTC
Is that telling me that inlining of assembly code is not supported on this architecture ? Yes, probably. `__asm{}` was previously, only supported on x86. It would appear to indicate that they haven't yet, or maybe, are not intending to, ungrade the inline assembler to support iapx-64? This post on the MS forums might suggest a way around this, via the use of another non-standard extension `__emit{}`. But then you'd have to translate the opcode to hex yourself, which seems more than a little retro. Shades of Spectrum Duck Shoot :) Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: [OT] Building Math::Pari on M$ Windows by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 04, 2007 at 15:57 UTC
Thanks BrowserUK. I must confess that I don't understand the reference to "Spectrum Duck Shoot" at all ... but it certainly sounds like something that I could readily support. For me, the main value of the link you provided was that it advised putting the asm code in a separate file. (I freak right out whenever I see something that begins with "0x..." :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^5: [OT] Building Math::Pari on M$ Windows by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 04, 2007 at 16:15 UTC
I spent many hours playing a version of Duck Shoot (aka Duck Hunt) that I wrote in Z80 assembler, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The downside was that it required me to use a basic BASIC loop loader to poke the hex opcodes into ram as there was no assembler program. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^5: [OT] Building Math::Pari on M$ Windows by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 23, 2007 at 23:04 UTC
This popped up on the Beeb tonight and since it's probably the best potted history of the significance of the ZX Spectrum I've seen, I thought it might be of interest. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]