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SubjectRe: Boot code rewritten for GAS
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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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