[syslinux] diskstart.inc: PartInfo sub-constants seen as local labels

[Gene Cumm]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 09:15, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a debugging/diagnostic image in order to debug/diagnose
> an issue with very recent machines using a UFD (USB Flash Drive) which
> really _should_ be partitioned but someone decides to be a little too
> quick and uses it raw. (FAT* file system on /dev/sdb rather than
> /dev/sdb1).
>
> Anyways, I've got a successful first iteration that'll say what the
> BIOS thinks about geometry and fetches key sectors of the image to
> visually verify this info.  Now, I'm thinking that if it doesn't
> smell/taste the same as SYSLINUX on FAT*, it's not a valid test as
> BIOSs commonly use the first sector to guess the intended geometry.
> I'm copying (for now) the boot sector code from diskstart.inc.
>
> Now, nasm is acting like the PartInfo sub-constants (for lack of
> better/proper terminology) are local labels.  I'm guessing it's either
> bad syntax in diskstart.inc or a parser-related bug in nasm.  I'm
> working around this (for now) by having a label just before these
> constants.
>
> Thoughts?

I forgot to mention that my build system is Ubuntu 10.04 with NASM
from Ubuntu (2.07) and that I tried building NASM 2.09.04 and 2.10rc3
with the same results.