From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261512AbTIFWIE (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:08:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262159AbTIFWIE (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:08:04 -0400 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:424 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261512AbTIFWIB (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:08:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:08:00 +0200 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Fruhwirth Clemens Cc: John Bradford , joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nasm over gas? Message-ID: <20030906220800.GA18850@DUK2.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: Fruhwirth Clemens , John Bradford , joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200309051225.h85CPOYr000323@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20030905122501.GA3250@leto2.endorphin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030905122501.GA3250@leto2.endorphin.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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