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From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens-dated-1063628701.d72f@endorphin.org>
Cc: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
	joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nasm over gas?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:08:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030906220800.GA18850@DUK2.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030905122501.GA3250@leto2.endorphin.org>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-06 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-05 12:25 nasm over gas? John Bradford
2003-09-05 12:25 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-06 22:08   ` Herbert Poetzl [this message]
2003-09-07 20:40     ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 13:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
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2003-09-08 20:08             ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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     [not found]     ` <teE5.2XZ.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-08 12:07       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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     [not found]       ` <tcVB.rs.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-08 12:03         ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 13:53           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-08 16:10             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:17           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:45             ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 16:58               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 17:59           ` William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-05 13:57 John Bradford
2003-09-05 15:39 ` Mehmet Ceyran
2003-09-06 20:24   ` David B. Stevens
2003-09-05 12:21 John Bradford
2003-09-04 10:42 Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 12:32 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-04 13:44 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:05   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 14:21     ` Sean Neakums
2003-09-04 14:33       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 15:09         ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:55     ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 21:16       ` George Anzinger
2003-09-04 14:57   ` Michael Frank
2003-09-04 15:43     ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 22:28     ` insecure
2003-09-05 12:59       ` Michael Frank
2003-09-05 17:28         ` insecure
2003-09-05 17:45           ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-06 17:18             ` insecure
2003-09-07 18:49           ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-07 19:30             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 21:37               ` insecure
2003-09-09 21:34             ` insecure
2003-09-11 11:07               ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 15:26                 ` insecure
2003-09-12 17:27                   ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 22:17                     ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-13 19:25                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 19:51                         ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-11 14:03               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-11 17:05                 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 20:56           ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-05 13:27       ` Jesse Pollard
2003-09-05 23:51     ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-09-06  1:41       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-04 14:56 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 11:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-05 12:04   ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 12:37     ` Jörn Engel

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