[tremor] Initial Embedded Visual Studio attempt.

[Firelight Technologies]

> 
> Erm, I don't fully understand...  Wouldn't it be much easier to just
> compile everything with the calling conventions you need, instead
> of just two functions?

Evc doesn't let you change the default calling convention; otherwise
obviously I would have done it.

> > Oh and I'm getting a lot of type size mismatch warnings due to
longs..
> > why are these used instead of int?
> 
> An int is any convenient size; a long is required to be at least 32
bits.
> We need 32 bits for a lot of stuff, so a lot of longs are used.

Well 'at least 32' is emulated 64 in this case = bad.

> > I fear them especially when I come to port this onto the ps2 because
> > longs are all emulated 64bit ints (function calls) and bring
projects to
> > their knees because they are so slow.
> 
> I consider that a bug in evc, then.  

Sorry I switch to PS2 mode here as a tangent, it doesn't use evc it uses
GCC - your favourite :)

> There is no reason for a compiler
> to use a size > 32 bits for long ints if a 32 bit type would be (at
least
> as) fast.

Since when is long being 64bit int a bug?  There is no reason at all for
long to be 32 bit.  I think it is QUITE reasonable for long to be 64bit,
as it is supposed to be longer than an int. 
I agree with marc that if you absolutely have to have 32, then use a
defined type. (I would just use int in my case as I have never
encountered a machine in my years that used 16bit ints, maybe you have)
I would hope this point isn't argued too much, I seem to always find
resistance when talking about this long issue (I raised it on vorbs-dev
a while ago but was ignored also), The alternative is I am going to have
to spend a while renaming all longs to int every time I get a version.

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