Re: [Nasm-devel] [PATCH] win64 fix + addition

[Cyrill G. <gor...@op...>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:13:49AM +0300, Йордан Гигов wrote:
> The current version of Nasm never generates mod 0 rm 5 bytes to
> address memory or code, thus it can only be linked with
> /LARGEADDRESSAWARE:NO by the Microsoft linkers. Additionally you can't
> specify a base larger than 0x7FFFFFFF. My patch fixes that.
> 
> Also I make the proposition that in addition to "db", "dw", "dd",
> "dq", etc. keywords we add "dp" (as in define pointer). It is to be
> the same size as the program's BITS mode. In 64-bit mode it would
> behave as dq, in 32-bit as dd, and in 16-bit as dw.

I think this should be done rather by a macro definition than
squashing into C source (and, btw don't address two problems in
one path, it could be 2 patches -- one for sib and one for dp).

	Cyrill