Re: [parchive-devel] integrating asm speedups in par2 mainline

[Peter C. <pe...@co...>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:32:56PM -0600, Ace Olszowka wrote:
> please make sure that a "reference" implementation is kept in fairly
> Portable C.

 Yes, of course!  It needs to work on all platforms, so the pure C
version needs to be there.

I got some responses to
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31734263/write-x86-asm-functions-portably-win-linux-osx-without-a-build-depend-on-yasm

I'm inclined to just use masm syntax, and have ./configure search for
nasm or yasm.  (unless I can figure out a way to get gas to assemble
it, maybe with CPP macros.)

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