Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:42:45 +0200 | Subject | nasm over gas? | From | Fruhwirth Clemens <> |
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Hi!
I recently posted a module for twofish which implements the algorithm in assembler (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106210815132365&w=2)
Unfortunately the assembler used is masm. I'd like to change that. Netwide Assembler (nasm) is the assembler of my choice since it focuses on portablity and has a more powerful macro facility (macros are heavily used by 2fish_86.asm). But as I'd like to make my work useful (aim for an inclusion in the kernel) I noticed that this would be the first module to depend on nasm. Everything else uses gas.
So the question is: Is a patch which depends on nasm likely to be merged?
For more information on "what is nasm": http://nasm.sourceforge.net/doc/html/nasmdoc1.html#section-1.1
Regards, Clemens [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |