Re: [Nasm-devel] Replace %00 with %: ?

[anonymous c. <nas...@us...>]

>>> Does anyone agree with
>>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=809197&group_id=6208&atid=356208
>>> in turning %00 into %: ?
>>
>> Unless you've got some really good reason to break backward (balkward)
>> compatibility, I'm afraid I don't agree. I realize this is undocumented,
>> but it's been like that for a long time!
>
> I can see adding %: as an alias, but breaking the existing functionality
> is just right out.

Yes, the code snippet suggested in SF #809197
adds support for '%:' but retains '%00' -- there's a
comment in it suggesting a warning for the latter.

(I ended up implementing a suppressible warning
for 'abandoned' features. As of writing this I'm left
with two if them: '%00' is one, and '...&... instead
of ...[...] for effective addresses' is the other.)