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

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 11/11/2011 09:02 AM, Philipp Kloke wrote:
> 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?
>  

Yes, it would be great to have.  Looking forward to your patch.

	-hpa

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