[Nasm-devel] [Fwd: Re: Example code => Win32.lib]

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

Oh, shh! Sent that to ...-admin!

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Subject: Re: Example code => Win32.lib
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:37:10 -0400
From: Frank Kotler <fbk...@at...>
Organization: N
To: nas...@li...
References: <000301c238d3$7073d710$7fea2041@quantumstorm>

Jim Watters wrote:

> BTW, is this list for the creators of NASM and I should use the "nasm -
> Beginner Questions" list for actual NASM questions?

The original Creator (that's uppercase, son), Simon Tatham, has moved on
to other projects - Julian Hall is still on the team. But yes, this list
*is* for "developers". There's the "beginner's questions" forum at
SourceFrog - it eats posts, sometimes. Maybe it's stopped. The problem
seemed to be worse when I was logged-in, so "nobody" answers some of the
questions :) The old Yahoo development-list is just sitting there doing
nothing:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasm-devel/

119 members still hanging on, but they seem to lack the power of speech
:) Feel free to use that as a "beginner's forum" if you like. I was
thinking we might use it for the "translate AoA to Nasmese" project, but
that's in danger of dying for lack of interest:

http://users.otenet.gr/%7ealf99/nasm_aoa.html

I don't think there's a problem with using this list for general Nasm
questions in moderation, but better not to overdo - it would make the
"real patches" harder to find in the archives.

Hey, I've got a question! I was trying to use Watcom C to compile Nasm
to a 16-bit target. It seemed to all compile alright (whole!), but the
linker was looking for functions with a *trailing* underscore. Anyone
know how to deal with that? Oddly enough, I know how to make Nasm use
Watcom-compatible trailing underscores - "--POSTFIX_" (thanks to James
Seter for that) - but have no idea how Watcom itself does it. RTFM, I
suppose...

Best,
Frank