Re^3: [OT] Building Math::Pari on M$ Windows

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 :)

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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]