ASM Sources!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stroggos]

How would I go about getting rid of these ASM source files in GLQuake

[Spirit]

REWRITE THE CODE TO NOT USE ASM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edit: Heh, same number of exclamation marks. Must be the threshold of sanity there.

[metlslime]

it's pretty easy -- there are about a dozen ASM functions in the glquake source. Of those, only about a third are necessary and they all have C replacements, another third have C replacements that are empty (i.e. not needed at all, they just set some flags on the CPU), and the last third are never actually called.

So you just use the C versions for the first category, and rip out the second and third categories entirely.

[Spike]

yeah, the assembler code is entirely optional.
its slightly faster, but tbh that's more because it has a better algorithm in a few places (its not 100% identical to the C code). Of course, that really only affects the sw renderer.
Just remove the files and then figure out how to enable the C versions of the functions.

[JasonX]

Sorry to bump this, but i'm trying to remove the .S files from my SDLQuake build and having no luck with. Does anyone know how to properly get rid of ASM files?

[Baker]

1. Remove the .s files from your project.

Find anything that says:

#if id386

or

#ifdef id386

And delete it the block of code through the #else or #endif. Or change those to #if conditions to #if 0 if you want to be conservative.

Find anything that is

#if !id386 or #ifndef id386 and change to #if 1

Make sure nonintel.c is not in your project.

That's the short version. And the short version will do want you want. You'll have unnecessary stuff loitering around that is harmless. Like empty functions that are shells for NOT setting floating precision for ASM and other remnants but it doesn't hurt anything.

[leileilol]

That's the short version. And the short version will do want you want.

Or you could just turn off ASM by switching one little define in quakedef.h


i'd still use asm even if it's glquake - asm for sound mixing is still relevant

[Baker]

That's the short version. And the short version will do want you want.

Or you could just turn off ASM by switching one little define in quakedef.h


i'd still use asm even if it's glquake - asm for sound mixing is still relevant

Sometimes the define is in the source and with some of projects it is in the compile arguments, depending on the source base. I kinda wanted to avoid discussing that so I avoided that. But yeah, true.