Re: [Nasm-devel] [nasm:master] iflag: Introduce IFLAG_INIT helper

[Dave Y. <dav...@gm...>]

On 12/10/13 11:21 am, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 11:13 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:02:00AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for report Dave! Crap, I thought man pages generation were resolved already.
>>>> As to compiler on OW, Peter, do we have a chance to narrow down what exactly is
>>>> broken there?
>>>>
>>>
>>> At least one is a blatant OW bug:
>>>
>>> 	if (n<= 0xFFFFFFFF)
>>>
>>> ... where n is a uint64_t, and OW claims it is always true.
>>
>> yes, I saw, and that's wondering me -- I mean I don't get why it is so.
>>
>
> I think OpenWatcom's handling of 64-bit numbers is just broken.  It was
> introduced when interest in OW was already waning.
>

There's a good chance that the ver 2 fork has fixed these issues as it 
is supposed to be introducing support for 64bit binaries. I'll try 
downloading it later (I'm on dial-up so 100 MB downloads are slow).
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/openwatcom/ and 
https://github.com/open-watcom
Dave