[fpc-pascal] IFDEF usage in x86_64's SwapEndian() implementation

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2016-03-30 11:58, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> The code is there to differentiate between the windows ABI and other ABIS,
>> which specify in what register the AValue parameter is passed.
>
> Ah okay. One could possibly write it in a less ambiguous way, as
> follows? No IFDEF's needed.
>
> function SwapEndian(const AValue: DWord): DWord; assembler; nostackframe;
> asm
>  movl AValue, %eax
>  bswap %eax
> end;

I am not proficient enough in the assembler parts of the compiler to comment
on this. Maybe one of the compiler people knows why it is the way it is...

Michael.