H. Peter Anvin
593b73ae6d
doc: title capitalization
2008-06-11 18:52:54 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7baaf630a5
doc: add missing period.
2008-06-11 18:51:14 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
57bf27b654
doc: remove obsolete note.
2008-06-11 18:50:41 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
792ade2256
doc: Makefile fixes missing from previous checkin
2008-06-11 18:38:15 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
773a513a1d
doc: another case of the RTF backend corrupting state
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Another case of the RTF backend corrupting global state. "Fix" it by
only outputting one format at a time; this also makes it possible to
run in parallel.
2008-06-11 18:32:33 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
62332b2373
doc: ps/pdf: set page numbers in normal-sized italic
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Set page numbers in normal-sized italic, instead of large and bold.
We might want to consider using bold italic, but I think this is just
fine.
2008-06-11 18:23:14 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
eb8db629d0
doc: Add NASMENV to the index (BR 1917084)
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Add NASMENV to the documentation index.
2008-06-11 18:14:24 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
3d61238bf8
ps/pdf doc: default to 10-point font, wider leading
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Switch the main font to 10 points Times Roman, but leave the leading
at 11 points. This produces, in my opinion, a much more legible and
printable document.
2008-06-11 18:09:02 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ca5ec7a225
Make -F imply -g (BR 1991213)
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When the user specifies -F, imply the -g option. Too many users seem
to make this mistake.
2008-06-11 18:07:40 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7df0417e58
Add %warning, saner unquoting of %error
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- Add %warning directive
- Only unquote an %error or %warning string if it is the only thing on
the directive line.
- Don't expand macros inside a quoted string, even for %error.
2008-06-10 18:27:38 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
c800e131c1
doc: Fix title "String Constants"
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Cut & paste oops...
2008-06-08 16:55:15 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
cf948a3904
doc: Index Unicode and UTF-8
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Add Unicode and UTF-8 to the index
2008-06-08 16:54:03 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
cb40e8a010
doc: \t is also a supported escape sequence...
2008-06-08 16:50:23 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
9544bec3f5
doc: s/by/in/ certain preprocessor directives.
2008-06-08 16:49:16 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
c2734cc43c
Split documentation on string syntax out of "character constants"
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Split the documentation on string syntax, as a lexical entity, out of
the section about character constants. It was confusing to have
discussion that apply more to string constants than character
constants, and they use the same syntax anyway.
2008-06-08 16:46:37 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
062ee976c4
doc: A few floating-point examples
2008-06-08 16:39:28 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
27bdec9295
doc: add a comma
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This time the comma should actually be there.
2008-06-08 16:35:45 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
6581802f8b
doc: ALL %if constructs have %elif/%ifn/%elifn variants.
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All %if constructs now have %elif/%ifn/%elifn; this is hard-coded into
the preprocessor.
2008-06-08 16:34:44 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
868067de66
doc: remove superfluous comma
2008-06-08 16:25:20 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
66f1d9ffb1
Improve the %iftoken example
2008-06-08 16:24:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ef0145540e
Fix capitalization in titles
2008-06-08 16:20:26 -07:00
Frank Kotler
af19b09a2e
Document __OUTPUT_FORMAT__
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It may be "too late" for this to get into 2.03, but I've been whining
that "__OUTPUT_FORMAT__" ought to be documented. Maybe...
2008-06-08 10:48:16 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
533fb7e1f5
doc: Remove superfluous comma.
2008-06-04 17:24:35 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
9e20016eda
Add %defstr, %idefstr
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Add %defstr and %idefstr, to define a macro as a quoted string.
2008-06-04 17:23:14 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
64bd892d7f
doc: Remove "what's new" since it is out of date
2008-06-02 18:32:01 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
e8a092976e
Document UTF-8 conversion better, use "byte" instead of "ASCII"
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ASCII specifically refers to characters <= 127, so to use "ASCII" for
literal bytes is really confusing in a multibyte environment. Give an
example of using Unicode escapes.
2008-06-01 23:00:23 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
677befc461
Document that underscores in numbers is permitted.
2008-06-01 22:53:15 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
c23b2a9d47
nasmdoc: document %substr, ...
2008-06-01 22:36:09 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
39fe51eedf
Fix bug where the WinHelp backend corrupts the internal data
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WinHelp/RTF needs to convert \ to \\, but did so on the global data,
so the DIP output was corrupted.
2008-06-01 22:34:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
311d27d328
doc: Single section for all the date/time macros
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Move all the date/time macros to a common section so we can give a
common example. We don't have support for a fourth level of headers,
so just use a bulleted list.
2008-05-30 14:32:16 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7d6fae6537
doc: fix __UTC_DATE__ and __UTC_TIME__ description
2008-05-30 14:11:40 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
fd59e0c63c
Document %pathsearch and %depend
2008-05-30 11:03:56 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
e63e62be46
doc: consistent capitalization (and indexing!) of INCBIN
2008-05-30 10:09:24 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
9e1f528c36
Add the -MP option to emit phony targets
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Add the -MP option to emit phony targets. Since this means each
header file has to be visited more than once, change the
implementation to use an internal list of all the dependencies, and
centralize the emission of the dependency files.
2008-05-29 21:38:00 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
dbd75f7afc
Document the new dependency options.
2008-05-29 19:27:05 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
14b015f9d6
Missing % in %ifmacro
2008-05-28 22:11:13 -07:00
Andy Polyakov
95cd596352
doc: document Win32/64 SEH extensions
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Document COFF extensions for Windows SEH
2008-05-27 14:03:09 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ca4f36cc2c
Document %? and %??
2008-05-25 22:09:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
e6a5cb536a
doc: another reference to DY
2008-05-23 18:24:03 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
a69749581d
Document DY, RESY and YWORD
2008-05-23 17:58:01 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
21513e822f
inslist.pl: deal with the new encoding format
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Make it possible for inslist.pl to understand the new encoding format;
fix a few minor buglets.
2008-05-20 18:33:40 -07:00
Charles Crayne
a762ca544b
Avoid long line warning when generating nasm docs
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rdsrc.pl limits lines to 68 characters for some formats
2008-04-12 13:35:43 -07:00
Charles Crayne
8ca31b48af
Document avaiabily of DWARF for ELF32 and ELF64
2008-04-07 14:26:29 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
134b94665d
Add %ifempty and variants
2008-02-16 17:01:40 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
cbf768d67d
Implement %iftoken, test for a single token
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Implement %iftoken, a test for a single token. This is useful in
cases using %+ to splice a macro-provided token.
2008-02-16 16:41:25 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
8c01b0b409
Use term "host platform" consistently
2008-02-16 14:57:45 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
70e63c9a9a
Add standard time macro boilerplate to __POSIX_TIME__
2008-02-16 14:56:49 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
6b18bcce46
BR 774131: date and time macros
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This checkin creates the following date and time macros:
__DATE__, __TIME__, __UTC_DATE__, __UTC_TIME__: strings
__DATE_NUM__, __TIME_NUM__, __UTC_DATE_NUM__, __UTC_TIME_NUM__:
civil dates in digit-string formats
__POSIX_TIME__: time in POSIX time_t format
2008-02-16 14:54:10 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
8960f37b9c
doc/Makefile.in: avoid deleting opt_var.txt, fix dependencies
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Fix dependencies in the generation of the instruction list, and make
sure we don't delete opt_var.txt on "make spotless".
2008-01-20 21:50:02 -08:00
Charles Crayne
c17a0eb31b
Add autogenerated instruction list to NASM documentation
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1. Allow included files in rdsrc.pl
2. New program inslist.pl to generate instruction list from insns.dat
3. Mark certain comments in insns.dat as documentation subheaders
4. Add Instruction List appendix to nasmdoc.src
5. Update build process to invoke inslist.pl
2008-01-20 16:27:03 -08:00
Charles Crayne
1727b3d0eb
Check in Ed Beroset's documentation fix
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Correct count in %strlen example
2007-12-28 15:00:03 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
e55c836b5a
Document naming of registers in 64-bit mode
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Intel's docs diverge from AMD's docs (MASM follow AMD's docs);
formally document what we're doing and include a file of macros in
case someone wants to use alternate names.
2007-12-10 15:35:28 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
5f5a252a36
Refer to version 2.00 consistently as 2.00 not 2.0
2007-11-29 17:30:11 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
869ed26461
doc: 16- and 128-bit floating point were also new for 2.0
2007-11-29 17:29:37 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
f7acb2f902
Update install instructions; remove references to nasmw.exe
2007-11-29 17:28:05 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
72da449a41
doc: s/NASM/nasm/ in invocation example
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On case-sensitive systems, "NASM" doesn't work.
2007-11-29 17:20:45 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
d1e8ba6039
-o is output filename, not output format
2007-11-29 17:19:49 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
3e30d5aefe
Give an example on how Unix and Win64 count argument differently
2007-11-29 17:17:35 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
52b4d6d7b0
Allow numbers to be sorted separately from letters
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Allow numbers to be sorted separately from letters.
2007-11-29 17:10:04 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
540f903928
nasmdoc.src: editorial changes
2007-11-29 17:07:53 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
c780557e15
%ixdefine, not %xidefine
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The docs had %xidefine, the code has %ixdefine. The code wins.
2007-11-29 13:10:08 -08:00
Charles Crayne
f2098e9935
Documention Changes for Release 2.00
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modified: CHANGES
modified: ChangeLog
modified: doc/nasmdoc.src
2007-11-25 14:25:13 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
21eed86871
Typo fixes in documentation
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Typo fixes in documentation, including BR 1836379
2007-11-24 16:31:48 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
24588d35e7
Remove FIXME from documentation
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This better work now, we're in release candidate mode.
2007-11-17 21:21:18 -08:00
Charles Crayne
db90f35d89
Check in Keith's Fixes
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1. Don't warn on 32-bit overflow
2. Change EM64T to Intel 64 in Defining CPU Dependencies
section of documentation.
2007-11-17 21:08:33 -08:00
root
dbb1828ad5
Support setting OSABI value in ELF header.
2007-11-13 19:52:54 -08:00
Charles Crayne
c22ae5cb12
Update documentation for stack relative directives.
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Bring a few other sections up to date.
2007-11-10 21:55:19 -08:00
Charles Crayne
9fb030f8cd
Update documantation for stack relative directives
2007-11-09 16:37:41 -08:00
Charles Crayne
102cdadb6f
Update documentation for stack relative directives
2007-11-09 16:25:43 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
88602aa53a
ps2pdf: remove -dOptimize=true
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Remove -dOptimize=true; it actually generates larger output, since the
optimization performed is "network optimization".
2007-11-08 20:29:37 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
2ce0274303
Use a 32-bit floating-point limb size; support 8-bit float
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Use a 32-bit limb size ("like a digit, but bigger") for floating-point
conversion. This cuts the number of multiplications per constant by a
factor of four.
This means supporting fractional-limb-sized numbers, so while we're at
it, add support for 8-bit floating point numbers (apparently used in
graphics and in audio compression applications.)
2007-10-29 20:20:12 -07:00
Charles Crayne
650dc9d004
Update sections about debug info formats
2007-10-24 15:30:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7065309739
Formatting: kill off "stealth whitespace"
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"Stealth whitespace" makes it harder to read diffs, and just generally
cause unwanted weirdness. Do a source-wide pass to get rid of it.
2007-10-19 14:42:29 -07:00
Charles Crayne
f3eea3d539
Suppress datarootdir warnings from configure
2007-10-18 23:33:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
f6c9e65d4f
Implement floating-point option control directive
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New directive [FLOAT] with associated standard macros; allows the
setting to be saved and restored.
2007-10-16 14:40:27 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
fd7dd11345
Create option -Ox to tell NASM to do unlimited passes
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Add option -Ox to tell NASM to do as many passes as it needs, instead
of imposing a fixed number.
2007-10-10 14:06:59 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
413fb900bf
nasm option reshuffling, -E -> -Z
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Old -E becomes -Z
New -E is alias for -e
Remove the obsolete -r option
2007-09-26 15:19:28 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
4cba95cf81
nasmdoc: corrections on 64-bit immediates/displacements
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Corrections the section on 64-bit immediates and displacements. In
particular, immediates are sign-extended the same way displacements
are (and the same way 8-bit immediates are), so there is some use for
the 7-byte mov eax,dword imm form :(
2007-09-25 20:36:45 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
64b3a9c56b
nasmdoc: shorten lines which are too long
2007-09-25 16:02:21 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
f664bf1ed6
Document NASM behaviour for 64-bit immediates and displacements
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Document (intended) NASM behaviour for 64-bit immediates and
displacements.
2007-09-25 16:01:07 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ed29882b51
nasmdoc: grammar fix
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half -> halves
2007-09-24 13:54:00 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
1fd23400fd
nasmdoc: remove stray periods
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A title line doesn't end in a period.
2007-09-24 13:44:02 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
37a321fbbe
Implement the -MG option (SF RFE 1564264)
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Implement the -MG option, to generate dependencies in the presence of
generated files. In the end, we probably need to support the full
gamut of GCC-like dependency-generation options.
2007-09-24 13:41:58 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
dee8eaa967
nasmdoc: clarify __float*__ example
2007-09-24 12:52:09 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ea043ef039
nasmdoc: document the __float*__ operators
2007-09-24 12:44:38 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
25a993488c
BR 1783117: Document that %+ needs a space after it, and fix crash
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Document that %+ needs a space after it due to collision with %+1
syntax for multiline macro arguments; make it issue an error message
rather than crashing.
2007-09-22 17:45:45 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
8084f105a2
Document Infinity and NaN
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Add __Infinity__, __QNaN__, and __SNaN__ to the documentation.
2007-09-18 22:08:04 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5107d672a0
Update documentation
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Document new floating-point capabilities, and clean up the discussion
about BITS 64 and REX prefixes.
2007-09-18 19:12:26 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
0edc309505
Document oword, do and reso
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Document oword and the associated do and reso pseudoinstructions.
2007-09-18 13:45:12 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
2f3c4c056e
Additional documentation for 64-bit programming
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Flesh out the documentation for 64-bit programming a little bit; in
particular, include links to the ABI documentation for various
platforms.
2007-09-17 13:03:33 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
d105682096
Remove $Id$ tags (useless with git)
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Remove CVS $Id$ tags, since git doesn't use them.
2007-09-12 21:05:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
9c06db6935
doc: add some cross-references
2007-09-11 23:57:23 +00:00
H. Peter Anvin
9b49e24e1f
Feeble attempt at updating the documentation; remove Appendix B
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Feeble attempt to document 64-bit support. Also, remove Appendix B since
we have been utterly useless at keeping it up to date, and it's redundant
with the processor manufacturer's documentation anyway.
2007-09-11 23:52:01 +00:00
Frank Kotler
155eef6a3d
finally commit Mike Frysinger's "elf-visibility" patch
2007-08-26 05:10:24 +00:00
Chuck Crayne
b7eea1c940
Addition of elf32 and elf64 output formats.
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Addition of ! as unary operator in expression evaluation.
Allow numeric constants in DQ directive.
2007-05-04 02:16:08 +00:00
Keith Kanios
b7a89544d0
General push for x86-64 support, dubbed 0.99.00.
2007-04-12 02:40:54 +00:00
Eric Christopher
1e0de6e913
Fix documentation building for non-srcdir builds. Still bugs in .ps implementation.
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Add Mach-O documentation.
2006-02-04 00:23:30 +00:00
Frank Kotler
9d8c22b202
add John Coffman's optimizer documentation
2005-03-10 02:03:11 +00:00
Frank Kotler
c0e34d4f81
Document maximum identifier length
2004-12-31 03:38:32 +00:00
Frank Kotler
6f7a5a60dc
Touch up docs
2003-12-12 07:54:15 +00:00