Re: Please, really, make `-masm=intel` the default for x86

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 at 09:16, LIU Hao via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 在 2022/11/25 16:50, Marc Glisse 写道:
> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2022, LIU Hao via Gcc wrote:
> >
> >> I am a Windows developer and I have been writing x86 and amd64 assembly for more than ten years.
> >> One annoying thing about GCC is that, for x86 if I need to write I piece of inline assembly then I
> >> have to do it twice: one in AT&T syntax and one in Intel syntax.
> >
> > The doc for -masm=dialect says:
> >
> >      Darwin does not support ‘intel’.
> >
> > Assuming that's still true, and even with Mac Intel going away, it doesn't help.
> >
>
> Did you mean 'Darwin' instead of 'macOS'?

Darwin is the name used in the GNU target triplet. It's an older name
than macOS, which was previously called OS X.

> The first-class C and C++ compiler for macOS is Clang anyway; even the thing named 'gcc' is
> effectively Clang.

And? GCC still works there. As a Windows developer I'm surprised to
hear you suggesting that only the default system compiler matters.
Should GCC stop supporting Windows?