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SubjectRe: [ix86 only] as86 bug?
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 years out of date and unmaintained.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 Like I said the old as86 tools vendors ship are about 3 years out of date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.

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