[syslinux] Syslinux 6.04-pre1

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 03:08:12 PST 2016


On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:21 AM, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/16 10:02, Ady via Syslinux wrote:
>>
>> 1_ The NEWS file would not be an adequate place to post such
>> information, for several reasons.
>>
>> 2_ Expressing the problem with NASM in such a way would be very
>> inaccurate. The problem is in NASM 2.11.06, and only in that version.
>> The problem is not in Syslinux, and many other versions of NASM (such
>> as 2.11.05) have no problem.
>>
>> As I already said multiple times (not just in the Syslinux Mailing
>> List), this kind of information develops according to various
>> circumstances, at different times, from different sources, and with no
>> control nor influence from The Syslinux Project. Therefore, the
>> adequate place for accurate information of this kind is a "Building"
>> wiki page.
>>
>
> For the case of NASM 2.11.06, I just put a test into head.inc to make it
> error out.
>
>         -hpa

There's also an issue with a newer keyword that started in NASM 2.03?
If I recall, the clause in head.inc isn't seen soon enough to throw
the error though looking back, it's been 5-1/2 years since I had
mentioned it.

-- 
-Gene


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