Re: Boot code rewritten for GAS

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sun, 01 Aug 1999 19:13:20 -0700


Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> nasm is nice, for all the reasons you mention above. The only
> overriding concern is that as86 works, and assemblers for 16-bit x86
> targets don't need to be updated very often :)
>
> Jeff
>

True enough, but the lack of documentation really hurts. The fact that
some constructs have to be entered as raw binary (in particular the jump
to protected mode) is also not very clean...

-- 
"The user's computer downloads the ActiveX code and simulates a 'Blue
Screen' crash, a generally benign event most users are familiar with
and that would not necessarily arouse suspicions."
-- Security exploit description on http://www.zks.net/p3/how.asp

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