Re: [Nasm-devel] Update: patch07

[Frank K. <fbk...@ne...>]

h-peter recktenwald wrote:

> Pse, take my thaughts just as some suggestion. I don't have any idea
> whether it would be worth the programming effort or, if I would simply
> be
> expecting too much.

No harm discussing what a "perfect Nasm" would be like, just to have a
clear "compass" to what direction we're heading. I really like some of
your ideas. Since optimization involves multiple passes, doing it on a
"per-section-of-code" might be a problem, but  it *might* be feasable to
devise a directive to instruct Nasm to skip actually making any changes
(to a section) even though it's doing the pass (?).

But, first things first... Last patch I've seen (0.98.06b, but nasm.c
1.7 - I assume that's what's referred to in the subject) still generates
incorrect code for "objtest.asm" - the redefine messages are gone, but
the result "hangs" before printing either "hello" message - similar to
what 0.98.05 was doing (IIRC). Wish I could help more with this, but I'm
still finding John's changes "challenging" - I'll keep studying it.

Latest changes to the web-site have caused the "mailing-list archives"
to vanish. This is somewhat bothersome to me right now, as my "mailbox"
is being flukey. Not a big problem. The greatest improvement to the
web-site I can imagine will be the "download the new version here"
button - I don't give a damn if it's "nuked" or "noped". ( if this is
supposed to be a "chat forum"... there's some code at
http://www.agner.org that might be worth looking at - I don't know how
it works, but I imagine it's the *fastest* chat forum going!)

More later,
Frank