On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:32:23PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote: > MSVC/MIPS supports 2 calling conventions (/Gd __cdecl calling > convention; > /Gr __fastcall calling convention) but I can't grok a difference. Probably more argument registers etc. I'd expect something along the NABI callign conventions. > > and certainly the assembler directives will be different from those > assumed by the Linux sources. > > Yes. > > It sems, it is impossible to build a full Linux toolcain at the MSVC > base. The MS linker > (LINK.EXE) is weak (comparing to `ld` monster) and can produce only COFF > .EXE (a.out) > MIPS executables. PECOFF, Microsoft's ECOFF variant which basically is ECOFF plus an MSDOS executable header. Yes, we all run MSDOS on our MIPS boxes so that's and important feature ;-) Ralf
