From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Alexander Voropay <a.voropay@vmb-service.ru>
Cc: "'Kevin D. Kissell'" <kevink@mips.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: MS VC++ compiler / MIPS
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:24:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040715002454.GA25279@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07f501c469c8$85f86240$0200000a@ALEC>
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:32:23PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> MSVC/MIPS supports 2 calling conventions (/Gd __cdecl calling
> convention;
> /Gr __fastcall calling convention) but I can't grok a difference.
Probably more argument registers etc. I'd expect something along the
NABI callign conventions.
> > and certainly the assembler directives will be different from those
> assumed by the Linux sources.
>
> Yes.
>
> It sems, it is impossible to build a full Linux toolcain at the MSVC
> base. The MS linker
> (LINK.EXE) is weak (comparing to `ld` monster) and can produce only COFF
> .EXE (a.out)
> MIPS executables.
PECOFF, Microsoft's ECOFF variant which basically is ECOFF plus an MSDOS
executable header. Yes, we all run MSDOS on our MIPS boxes so that's
and important feature ;-)
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-15 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 13:53 MS VC++ compiler / MIPS Alexander Voropay
2004-07-14 13:53 ` Alexander Voropay
2004-07-14 14:05 ` H.Heinold
2004-07-14 14:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-14 15:07 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-14 15:07 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-14 17:32 ` Alexander Voropay
2004-07-14 17:32 ` Alexander Voropay
2004-07-15 0:24 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-07-15 0:39 ` Ralf Baechle
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