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- PPC64 asm syntax fix, specifying explicitly comparison mode for cmpi (newer toolchains complain, older ones took optional field of instruction which happened to be same value)
author Tassilo Philipp
date Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:16:13 +0100
parents 3e629dc19168
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Build with GCC Tool-Chain:

  One assembly front-end *.S source file for all supported architectures:
  
  Usage:
    gcc -c dyncall_call.S -o dyncall_call.o

  Advantages:
  - works fine with universal binary builds (fat binaries), e.g.:
    gcc -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64 -c dyncall_call.S -o dyncall_call.o
    
  Details:
  Simplified assembly file compilation via using a gigantic C Preprocessor switch include.
  
  source file "dyncall_call.S" selects the appropriate GAS/Apple assembly file
  "dyncall_call_<arch>_<asmtool>.[sS]".
  
  archs so far:
  
  arm32_thumb		.s
  arm32_arm		.s
  mips		.s
  ppc32		.s
  x64			.s
  x86			.S  [ uses C macros ]
  
  asmtools:
  
  gas	  - standard GNU assembler
  apple - apple's assembler (based on GNU but is significantly different in syntax)
  masm  - Microsoft assembler x86 and x64
  nasm  - Netwide assembler for x86 and x64
  
  
  NOTE: .S is used for preprocessing assembly files using gcc
        .s is used directly with as
      
advantages:
  - one way to build the kernel: 
  
     gcc -c dyncall_call.S -o dyncall_call.o
     
  - we can build now universal binaries