RE: [Nasm-devel] merging two NASM branches

[Nelson R. <che...@at...>]

I've just begun this project as a Nasm revival. The original site hasn't
been updated in months, and the original authors and maintainers cannot be
reached.

I've been reviewing your diff and changes and it all seems reasonable.
You've updated the nasm documents to reflect the changes I presume?

If you would like to join the project let me know your sourceforge account
name.
If you could let me know how to get in touch with the SciTech crew that is
working on its own Nasm branch I'll talk to them about this as well.

Hopefully we can work together to keep all our changes in a single release.
I've been trying to find people interested in working on Nasm and so far I
haven't had much luck. Perhaps this is why the original project died, nasm
must seem very complete to most developers by now.

I understand that you don't want to be responsible for maintaining the
latest release and I don't want to put pressure on anyone to do so. All that
I would expect would be that if you make further substantial changes to
contribute them to the project and as the number of active members grow we
can all participate in keeping the tree sane.

I will do my best to keep things updated. I really like nasm.

If you would like to forward this message to Kendall it would help. And
mention this mailing list to him as well.

Sincerely,
Nelson Rush

-----Original Message-----
From: nas...@li...
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Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:12 AM
To: nas...@li...
Subject: [Nasm-devel] merging two NASM branches


Hello nasm-developers,

Just want to point you out that there is a parralel branch
of NASM
developement. SciTech (and particulary Kendall Bennet) are
doing
some improvements. They have their latest sources on their
Perforce
server (this is a kind of ugly<imho> CVS).

Also I am the author of nasm 0.98e that is on
linuxgames.com (you have
a remark about it on your "news" page). I have already
integrated my
latest patches into the SciTech"s version of NASM. I would
like to
propose to join our efforts since there is no much sense in
making
a branch of NASM. Moreover, neither me or SciTech have big
interest
in maintaining the "latest NASM" so if we could donate our
changes
to some team which will take further care of NASM I
personally (and
I"m almost sure Kendall as well) will be happy. We both are
going
to make further improvements to NASM from time to time but
for both
me nor Kendall this is not going to become the MainTime
Project
(its rather a MeanTime project). We just need NASM for our
projects
(I need it for Crystal Space project and Kendall for his
MGL project).

A short description of changes made by scitech:
- they added a TASM-compatible mode, that is, you may
compile
same code (with several precautions) with both TASM and
NASM. It is a
subset of Tasm"s IDEAL mode and is enabled by an additional
command-line switch "-t". Without "-t" NASM acts absolutely
as before.
They need such a mode for their MGL graphics library which
can be
compiled with both TASM and NASM.

On my part of changes, I have fixed some things in OMF
output routines
(I had problems with using Nasm"s object files under OS/2),
added some
new preprocessor defines (I have added %undef long time
before 0.98
came out, also I added %xdefine and %ixdefine which are
like %define
but expands the macros immediately, that is:

%assign a 5
%xdefine b a
%assign a=a+1

This will define "b" to "5", while if I would use simply %
define, it
would expand to latest value of a, in above case to "6".

Also I have added the %+ pseudo-operator for concatenating
substrings
in %define and alike. Example:

%define cextern(x) _ %+ x
cextern (myfunc)

The second line will expand to _myfunc. There was no
universal way to
do above job in NASM 0.98, thus this improvement.

Besides above changes, I have fixed a large number of NASM
bugs I have
encountered while using NASM for Crystal Space project (we
have a lot
of assembly code there, about 150K).

--
Best regards,
 Andrew Zabolotny

P.S. I"m not at home now (I"m even in other city) but my
email
address is bi...@el.... Please answer there as I won"t
have access
to the email account I am writing from. I will be there at
the end of
this week, I hope. I will join this mailing list ASAP, but
until
Monday please don"t reply me on the list.

P.P.S. I will ask also Kendall about merging together our
NASM brand
with your. I don"t think he will object.


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