Fwd: [gmp] [powerpc] GMP build is broken because asm {...} syntax has been removed from latest toolchains

[Douglas Mencken]

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From: Douglas Mencken <dougmencken at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [gmp] [powerpc] GMP build is broken because asm
{...} syntax has been removed from latest toolchains
To: Torbjorn Granlund <tg at gmplib.org>


>   At least, current 4.8.0 checkout.
>
> As far as I can tell, there is not yet any release "4.8.0".

But it will come eventually ;)
See also: svn checkout svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk,
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/snapshots/

> Sure, if they de-support the currently used asm syntax, then GMP and GCC
> will be incompatible on PowerPC.  I am sure many programs out there will
> be incompatible with GCC 4.8 if this GCC change prevails.

I have never met any other software which uses this "asm
{menmonic1|alias for mnemonic1}" syntax. Except GMP in longlong.h.