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Re: Use MMX or SSE for Apple II



Bryan Parkoff wrote:

>>> Also, the 64-bit C/C++ compilers don't allow
>>> inlined assembly instructions and so the entire routine will have to be 
>>> done
>>> in asembly and linked in seperately.
>> *The* 64-bit compilers? All of them?
> 
>     Shawn is correct since I have read newsgroups at comp.lang.asm.x86 1-2 
> years ago.  It may be some reasons why inline asm is removed from C/C++ 
> Compiler when it is in 64 bit mode.

I highly doubt that inline assembly is disabled in the GNU Compiler
(gcc) for x86-64. All that gcc does anyway is to forward the stuff to
the same assembler that assembles its own output.

-- 
Linards