Win64 function markup

[Brian Gladman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Johnson" <peter at tortall.net>
To: "Myria" <myriachan at cox.net>; "Andrew Dunstan" <a_dunstan at hotmail.com>; 
"Brian Gladman" <brg at gladman.plus.com>
Cc: <yasm-devel at tortall.net>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: Win64 function markup


> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Myria wrote:
>> Does Yasm support the mandatory function markup required by x86-64 
>> Windows?
>> This is the ".pdata" section.  I don't see any mention of it in the
>> documentation or the mailing list archives.
>
> Support for this has been added in [1762] and will be in the next release. 
> The commit log has all of the gory details, see: 
> <http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/changeset/1762>
>
> Basically I tried to match MASM's directives and macros as closely as 
> possible.  Unlike MASM, the macros are built in; you don't need an extra 
> include file to get them.
>
> Thanks to Brian for his help in tracking down documentation and being a 
> good sounding-board for ideas.
>
> Thanks for your patience,

I am most grateful for your effort on this Peter as well as the speed with 
which you provided these facilities.

My only worry now is that I have to learn how to use them!

Does anyone know of any good explanation of how to use these facilities in 
assembler with plenty of examples of their use?

    Brian