Re: Boot code rewritten for GAS
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
2 Aug 1999 01:22:49 GMT
Followup to: <199908011534.LAA07582@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>
By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'd say you guessed why this keeps getting ignored. (I have binutils
> 2.8.1.0.1 right now.) You could submit the patch again in a few years.
>
> Another reason: People who can write 16-bit x86 assembly are likely to
> be ex-DOS hackers with MASM and TASM experience. To them, gas syntax
> may be hard to use.
>
Indeed. NASM would be a better choice than either gas or as86.
-hpa
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