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>
The default page-centered position doesn't work too well with the
title and the new logo, so move the new logo down the page a bit.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
We use -Ox by default since Nasm-2.09 so "-O0" is not
longer "default" option. But first paragraph still has
the reference which confuses people. Get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Feel free to update this text as well,
and check it please for being more/less
readable.
CC: Keith Kanios <keith@kanios.net>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
And describe it in documentation. We've introduced
sectalign in 2.09rc series and have to provide an
ability to steer this feature.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Since %rep counter is a 64 bit signed integer we have to use some
"maximum possible value" limit (upper bound) otherwise there may be
a situation when %rep counter is 0 or even negative while user
has been passing big positive integer value.
Reported-by: nasm64developer
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Two fixes:
1. Optimization of [bx+0xFFFF] etc
0xFFFF is an sbyte under 16-bit semantics,
so make sure to check it right.
2. Don't optimize displacements in -O0
Displacements that fit into an sbyte or
can be removed should *not* be optimized in -O0.
Implicit zero displacements are still optimized, e.g.:
[eax] -> 0 bit displacement, [ebp] -> 8 bit displacement.
However explicit displacements are not optimized:
[eax+0] -> 32 bit displacement, [ebp+0] -> 32 bit displacement.
Because #2 breaks compatibility with 0.98,
I introduced a new optimization level: -OL, legacy.
Allow non-identifier characters in the name of environment variables,
by surrounding them with string quotes (subject to ordinary
string-quoting rules.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
We still miss Chuck, but I don't think we can really say anymore we're
doing this particular release in his memory.
Requiescat in pace, our friend.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Make -Ox the default; it's the optimization level expected by most
users, and it is clearly still causing confusion that it has to be
specified manually.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
