Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Sep 1999 07:57:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <> | Subject | Re: [ix86 only] as86 bug? |
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Please use dev86. The old as86 tools vendors ship are about 3 > > > years out of date and unmaintained. > > > > Like I said, this is a full install of RedHat 6.0, with everything > > that was included with it. How do I tell whether the as86 I'm using is > > from dev86 or not? > > Like I said the old as86 tools vendors ship are about 3 years out of date > and unmaintained >
This might be a good reason to ditch the as86/ld86 tools and rewrite the startup code to use gas. Then we only have to worry about bugs in one assembler, which is uptodate and maintained.
I think I saw some patches for this here on the list a short time ago.
-- Niels Kristian Bech Jensen -- nkbj@image.dk -- http://www.image.dk/~nkbj/
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