Re: nasm over gas?

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:25:01PM +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:25:24PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> > The point is, if somebody does find a bug they will want to
> > re-assemble with Gas after they've fixed it.
> 
> If you referring to my precompiled masm binaries, yes, if one wants to
> change the source, getting masm is not nice.
> 
> But if the source is writting in nasm, nasm (LGPL) can be installed
> easily.. 
> 
> However, the kernel folks seem to dislike to depend on an additional tool.
> Actually that's the answer to my original question. Now I just have to
> ponder if I favour the preferences of the kernel over the prefs of user space
> programs. There are lots of user space crypto implementations, which are
> potential candidates.. and for theses apps an additional dependency on nasm
> is no problem.

what it the problem with gas anyway? why not convert
the masterpiece to GNU Assembler? there even exists 
some script to aid in masm to gas conversion ...

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/faq/converting/asm2s-sed.html

best,
Herbert

> Regards, Clemens


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