Messages in this thread | | | From | (Philipp Thomas) | Subject | Re: Boot code rewritten for GAS | Date | Sun, 01 Aug 1999 16:55:23 GMT |
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:34:22 -0400 (EDT), "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
>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.
Oh c'mon. It's not the first time that building/running the kernel required certain versions of programs. So at least for me this is a non issue.
>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.
People coding for the kernel have to get used to at&t syntax anyway and then you'd have the added benefit of using the same syntax, disregarding of whether you're doing 16 or 32 assembly.
*And* you get rid of another tool dependency.
Philipp
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