[Nasm-users] Suggestion: Limit instruction set to specific CPU type

[Philipp K. <phi...@we...>]

Hi,

I would like to suggest to add a –cpu option to the command line flags of nasm (somewhat similar to GCCs –march option) where the user can specify the CPU type he is programming for. If the user uses an instruction that is not supported by the CPU, the assembler can warn about this. This can help to keep code running on old machines.

What do you think about this?


Philipp