[quake3] quake3 on Win64...kind of

[James Lacey]

What I meant is that there is no inline assembler for VC++ 8 when you are
compiling for x86_64. So all the __asm statements and blocks have to be
replaced with C code or an external assembly file. I am just a beginner in
assembly so I thought I would tackle this last. Any help would be
appreciated :)

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Ludwig Nussel [mailto:ludwig.nussel at suse.de] 
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:30 AM
To: quake3 at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [quake3] quake3 on Win64...kind of

On Sunday 12 February 2006 07:14, James Lacey wrote:
> Another catch is that there is no inline assembler for x64 in VC++
> 8 so the build is using the interpreted VM. I will probably base
> an assembly source file off of the vm_x86_64.c code I saw in the
> repository so the port has a compiled VM. I know it isn't
> playable, but it is a step in

It's no inline assembler. It writes a text file in gnu assembler
syntax, runs 'as' to compile it into an ELF file and then reads the
compiled code back into memory. I doubt that's of much use on
Windows :-) IMO directly emitting opcodes like vm_x86 is insane so
the best way would be to write a replacement for 'as' that can
compile the few assembler instructions used by by vm_x86_64.c.

cu
Ludwig

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