While today's manual lists "text" as the code section name,
"code" has been effectively named from d1da074.
Reported-by: <zenith432@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Added descriptions about new commandline options, STATIC
directive, symbol mingling, and some output format
specifics.
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
The rarely used 64-bit absolute load instruction (what gas calls
movabsq) needs to be declared ABS if we are in relative mode, which is
normally the case.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
There are some gotchas in how immediates and pointers are loaded in
64-bit mode and how they interact with optimization. Document those
cases.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Clean up the 2.13.02 release notes: we don't need to list every single
subcase where we would crash, as it is not really relevant to the
user.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
When using the -MW option, enclose whitespace-containing filenames in
double quotes. There are probably quite a few other things we ought
to know how to do...
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Allow NASM to generate Watcom-style Makefile dependencies, in addition
to the default POSIX-style Makefile dependencies.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Formatting and language consistency cleanups to the sections about
disabling and enabling warning classes.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Move information about the bug reporting to the appendix. Split
building from source and website/community info into separate
appendices.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Remove some highly obsolete and, quite frankly, condecending
introductory content. For most users, downloading and especially
compiling is no longer an immediate issue, so move that information to
an appendix.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Add indented paragraphs, which can be used to continue an item in a
bulleted list.
Produce valid strict XHTML, and include a style sheet with a navbar
and other fancy things.
Remove archaic output formats. Now only text, XHTML, and PDF are
supported.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
A raw data dump can potentially be very large, especially when
incbin is used. Allow a %pragma for setting the maximum dump
size (defaults to 128 bytes.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Make -Werror possible to control on a per-warning-class basis. While
I was fixing up that code anyway, merge the handling of the -w, -W and
[warning] argument and directives.
Furthermore, make *all* warnings suppressible; any warning that isn't
categorized now belong to category "other". However, for cleanliness
sake an "other" option does not get listed in the warning messages.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
There is no reason why the warning-generating ilog2 has to be only the
floor variant. However, I am pretty sure we can simply implement the
ilog2cw() as a macro only; we can always fix that if that turns out to
be incorrect.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The code to handle building in a separate directory had seriously
bitrotted. This contains a number of fixes to make it possible,
including bits like the documentation which never worked in the past.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Remove the --allow-64-bits relocation, and instead make it a
suppressible warning in the case of a zero-extended relocation, and an
error in the case of a sign-extended relocation.
Relocations which can be losslessly represented in the output format
do not issue any diagnostic at all, as there is no problem in that
case.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add the option --allow-64-bit to permit the generation of 64-bit code
even for a 16/32-bit output format.
Using NASM to do some boot strapping code and ran into trouble when
trying to emit a few 64-bit instructions in the OMF object file doing
the mode switching. While I can see how the "error: obj output format
does not support 64-bit code" message can be a useful reality check
for application programmers, it prevents low-level programmers from
doing what they want. It if was just a harmless warning, it wouldn't
be so bad, but it turns BITS 64 into BITS 16. The main trick to mixing
64-bit code into OMF and other 32-bit output formats is to avoid
64-bit sized fixups, which normally isn't too hard.
[hpa: shortened the option name to --allow-64-bit, minor code cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Knut St. Osmundsen <bird-nasm@anduin.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
[nosplit eax] has been encoded as [eax*1+0] since 0.98.34.
But this seems like unexpected behavior.
So only when a register is multiplied, that will be treated
as an index. ([nosplit eax*1] -> [eax*1+0])
Document is updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jin Kyu Song <jin.kyu.song@intel.com>
[nosplit eax+eax] was encoded [eax*2] previously but
this seems against the user's intention.
So in this case, nosplit is ignored now and [eax+eax] will be
generated.
Document is also updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jin Kyu Song <jin.kyu.song@intel.com>
Added bnd warning and nobnd prefix. DEFAULT directive section
has got more description about BND-related settings.
Signed-off-by: Jin Kyu Song <jin.kyu.song@intel.com>
Added the list of features added since 2.10 release.
Nasmdoc is also updated with those new features.
Signed-off-by: Jin Kyu Song <jin.kyu.song@intel.com>
Quote filenames for Make when generated for filenames internally.
Only skip quoting when using the -MT option (rather than -MQ).
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The NASM 2.09 preprocessor allows some illogical constructs, but which
unfortunately has been found in real code in the field. We need
a compatibility solution or a pragma before we can avoid that.
However, we need the other features in NASM 2.10 to come out, so
revert the preprocessor changes for now.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
