doc/changes.src should contain the user-visible changes in human
comprehensible form (release notes, not a changelog.) Get something
closer to what it should look like for 2.04.
We had different indentation levels only two paragraphs apart.
Overall, the document is horribly inconsistent about indentation,
which should be fixed.
%xdefine is an early-binding %define (%define being late-binding.)
There is nothing "enhanced" about it, it just specifies a different
policy. Call it a "resolving define" instead.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Users who wish to control the level of optimization can
continue to specify -O0, -O1, or -Ox,
where x can be the letter itself, or any number > 1.
However, even with optimization turned off,
NASM will always make enough passes to resolve
forward references. As a result, INCBIN is now the only
item left in the critical expressions list, although TIMES
still has its own constant value check.
Automatically provide an include guard for %use packages; the macro
__USE_package__ is automatically defined, and inclusion is suppressed
if it is already defined.
Add a framework for documenting the standard macro packages. Also
move the standard macros to the end of the preprocessor section,
instead of having them in the middle of the directives list.
For PostScript to PDF conversion, use whichever of "acrodist",
"ps2pdf", or "pstopdf" which we can find on the system. I haven't
tried either acrodist or pstopdf myself, only going my the
documentation, but prefer acrodist since it is claimed to produce
smaller output files than ps2pdf.
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.
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.
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.
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.
