Build failure for 5.1.0-RC2 on Mac OS 10.8

[Jack Howarth]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 08:23:47AM +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> What is the advantage of your Apple-specific code compared to the one I
> put into the repo?
> 
> Sure, using "long" is more compact that using quad.  But I don't think
> the new code runs slower.  Do you disagree?
> 
> I hesitate to change the code again for these reasons:
> 
> 1. The repo code seem to work already, see gmplib.org/devel/tm-date.html
> 2. We're late in the release process.
> 3. Your code variant almost surely will not work on non-darwin systems, so
>    we'd need to invent new m4 macros.
> 4. I am busy writing my disertation.  :-)
> 
>   > Xcode 4.5.2 on darwin12
>   > Xcode 4.5.2 on darwin11
>   > Xcode 4.2 on darwin10
>   > Xcode 3.2.6 on darwin10
>   > Xcode 3.1.4 on darwin9
> 
> Any chance you could check the present GMP code on these machines?
> 
> PS. You're now the GMP project's unofficial darwin guru.  :-)

Torbjorn,
  The current version of mod_34lsub1.asm has already been tested
on those platforms and works as well.
           Jack
ps I am hoping at some point Apple will break their clang assembler
code out into a stand-alone replacement assembler for gas.

> 
> -- 
> Torbjörn