Re: ///Re: NASM problem

rhyde@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Betov wrote:

Ah! You mean that your HLL Pre-Parser, sitting on the top
of FASM, is not even able to assume what FASM alone is much
probably able to do?

Directly? No way.
Despite all your claims to the contrary, HLA is not a thin veneer over
FASM.
<snip>
Gee, for a large number
of instructoins, HLA doesn't even use FASM's ability to translate
mnemonics into object code; HLA emits DB statements with the
appropriate opcodes precalculated.

What are these instructions that FASM doesn't support?

From the FASM website:

<quote>
The flat assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86
assembler for DOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. Currently it
supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
and 3DNow! extensions and x86-64 (both AMD64 and EM64T) instructions,
can produce output in binary, MZ, PE, COFF or ELF format. [...]
</quote>
<snip>

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