As a continuation of the previous assembly, the new twitter kylix_rd messages on Delphi x64:
To save people from browsing Twitter history: the first link in the quote has the CHASM64 picture :-)
I wonder what to make of this? http://yfrog.com/h2e20wp
28 dec@davidheff I cannot confirm or deny any relationship CHASM64 has to dcc64 ;-)
24 Deckylix_rd Allen Bauer
As a followup… there is now a CHASM64 folder in the dev tree.
23 Deckylix_rd Allen Bauer
Interesting tidbit; The current Delphi inline assembler is called CHASM internally. Why? Chuck J. wrote it for Kylix. CHuck’s ASM = CHASM
23 Deckylix_rd Allen Bauer
Another reason why writing tools for x64 is a bit more fiddly than x86: http://bit.ly/hh3Q59 . Now consider the restrictions on asm…
15 Deckylix_rd Allen Bauer
Another excellent discussion of the x64 calling conventions ABI: http://bit.ly/hgLl8N
15 Dec
–jeroen
