From: H. P. A. <hp...@zy...> - 2003-03-07 00:44:13
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Frank Kotler wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> I wanted to check with people... do we think we're in shape to do a >> 0.98.36 this week, or is there something else we should wait for? > > > Nothing I'm about to "get around to" anytime soon. > > I recently encountered an "oddity"... Corresponding with a beginner - > totally clueless, and not a native English-speaker - he sent me some of > his source-code - for a86, not Nasm. Rather than the error messages I > was expecting, Nasm silently produced a zero-length file! Examining his > "source code", I found it was full of zeros - apparently the guy was > using a hex-editor on his source code. Stripping out the zeros fixed it. > I don't think I'd consider it a "Nasm problem" - text files aren't > supposed to have zeros in them (are they???), but it surprised me. > > Anyone had a chance to look at that "dirty hack" that adds "EXTERNDEF"? > Anyone besides the author of the patch *want* "EXTERNDEF"? If not (or if > so), what *are* our priorities for 0.98.37? > What does externdef do? -hpa |