Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/02/2015 17:14, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:28:49AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 30.01.15 at 18:54, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>   - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend
>>>     on a given GCC and binutils version.
>> While I can see the possibility of making the binutils version
>> dependency go away (by manually creating the PE header), I can't
>> see how you'd overcome the gcc one: The MS calling convention
>> support is still going to be needed (not having looked at the patches
> Right, I forgot about that one.
>
>> themselves yet, I can't see myself accepting the introduction of
>> stubs to convert between calling conventions).

How about __attribute__((ms_abi)) ?  It would appear to exist for this
purpose.

~Andrew

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