Re: [LLVMdev] [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jul 15 2013 - 15:01:15 EST


On 07/15/2013 11:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> (NASM used to be *much* more pleasant to work with than gas. Maybe you
> should strive to make nasm DTRT wrt bt and constants, and maintain
> that lead?)
>

Yes, that is in fact why I took over NASM development when Simon Tatham
gave up on it. I'll look at adding this in the next version, it should
be easy enough.

-hpa


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