Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:34:22 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | | Subject | Re: Boot code rewritten for GAS |
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Chris Noe writes: > On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
>> Good luck! I'd also like as86 et al to go. But there might be older >> binutils in use somewhere? ... > As far as binutils go, I believe we should change the changelog to state > the minimum at 2.9.1.0.20 which fixes another 16bit codegen bug. Although > lower versions will work, I personally wouldn't feel too comfy with them. > (XXX: Tonight as I took another good look at the patch I realized that > there is *still* one gas bug exposed by some code in video.S which I had > mis-reported as fixed. Will set straight asap -- and probably end up > wanting the next binutils release (with the bugfix) as the minimum :)
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.
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