[Nasm-devel] NASM 2.12 released

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

Hi all,

I have tagged NASM 2.12 for release.  For the developers, it now means 
"master" is a development branch; "nasm-2.12.xx" is the maintenance 
branch for this release.

New in this release:

(*) Major fixes to the `macho' backend (section 7.8); earlier
     versions would produce invalid symbols and relocations on a
     regular basis.

(*) Support for thread-local storage in Mach-O.

(*) Support for arbitrary sections in Mach-O.

(*) Fix wrong negative size treated as a big positive value passed
     into backend causing NASM to crash.

(*) Fix handling of zero-extending unsigned relocations, we have
     been printing wrong message and forgot to assign segment with
     predefined value before passing it into output format.

(*) Fix potential write of oversized (with size greater than allowed
     in output format) relative relocations.

(*) Portability fixes for building NASM with LLVM compiler.

(*) Add support of Codeview version 8 (`cv8') debug format for
     `win32' and `win64' formats in the `COFF' backend, see section
     7.5.3.

(*) Allow 64-bit outputs in 16/32-bit only backends. Unsigned 64-bit
     relocations are zero-extended from 32-bits with a warning
     (suppressible via `-w-zext-reloc'); signed 64-bit relocations
     are an arror.

(*) Line numbers in list files now correspond to the lines in the
     source files, instead of simply being sequential.

(*) There is now an official 64-bit (x64 a.k.a. x86-64) build for
     Windows.