Re: [Haskell-cafe] Annoyed at System.Random

On 05/04/2012 03:18 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Vincent Hanquez mailto:tab@snarc.org> wrote:

For the language, i think assembly is a no-no with cabal, as such it need to be embedded in gcc inline assembly if you want to have something that works (unless there's a secret way to run assembler in a portable fashion in cabal).

I don't know if cabal knows this, but assembler files with .s (and maybe .asm on Windows?) extension are recognized by most C compilers and handed off to the assembler; as such, simply augmenting cabal's C rules with those extensions should be sufficient.

That might works, although you might end up with some corner case portability issues. Wrapping them in C should be more practical and you could write something like this for maximum portability (compiler,systems,..): #if system_that_works_with_inline_asm asm inline("instr1; instr2;", ....); #else /* fallback to C */ #endif -- Vincent