[haiku-development] Re: Removing YASM dependency
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:33:19 +0100
On 03/02/2014 15:30, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I noticed that we depend on yasm for a few files and that it seems to be that
> those were compiled with nasm
> in the past (the rule is still called AssembleNasm).
> Is this historical and it's just that nobody bothered to convert them yet
> or would there be any objections in converting them to GNU as? That
would remove
> the dependency on yasm and porting them to GNU as does not mean that
we have to use AT&T syntax,
> if that's the reason why nasm/yasm was used.
Probably simpler syntax, but I don't remember exactly.
I recall starting to translate one of those files to gas syntax long
ago, I'll try to dig that.
François.
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