[LLVMdev] Mod for using GAS with MS VC++

[Aaron Gray]

>>>> Right, presumably Wndows does not set the TT. Should Windows or MSVC++ 
>>>> have one ? If so how do I go about it. Maybe Jeff should be involved ?
>>>
>>> It should/will.  Currently there is no C/C++ front-end that works on 
>>> native windows, but that doesn't really matter.  In the future, we want 
>>> to key off the target triple that makes sense.
>>>
>>> Cygwin uses: i686-pc-cygwin and mingw uses i686-pc-mingw32, so I think 
>>> that using i686-pc-masm  and i686-pc-nasm make sense.
>>
>> Okay, how do we implement that ?
>
> In your LLC changes, just check for *-nasm and/or *-masm in the same 
> places that *-darwin and *-cygwin are.

Okay I will look into that tommorow.

>>>>> 4. The name forWindows isn't very specific, as there are multiple dev
>>>>>    systems available on windows (including cygwin, mingw, masm, nasm,
>>>>>    etc).  Please use something more specific.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it should be MSVC specific then ?
>>>
>>> Sure, but presumably you want to differentiate between nasm and masm (if 
>>> they are not compatible) right?
>>
>> Right
>
> Then you need something more specific than 'isWindows'.  I'd suggest, 
> isNASM and isMASM.

'for' rather than 'is'

forMSVC ? There is more to it than that :(

I was going from the _WIN32 preprocessor symbol. So maybe 'forWIN32' if it 
is actually needed.

Aaron