Re: Nasm 0.99.01 available

Evenbit wrote:
Frank Kotler wrote:

I've just made a "bugfix" release of Nasm - 0.99.01. Fixes some problems
in both nasm and ndisasm.

You didn't specify exactly what you fixed.

To make it perfectly clear, *I* didn't fix anything. I just make releases to reflect what the Nasm development team (hpa, in this case) have done. Corrected some issues with the bitflags representing registers... something about the generation of 67h prefixes... it's all over my head. FWIW, it isn't "right" yet - bug reports are already coming in, and fixes already being committed... Look for 0.99.02 fairly soon.

http://nasm.cvs.sourceforge.net/nasm/nasm/

If you want to "keep up" with the legendary breakneck speed of Nadm development (wipes coffee off monitor), be aware that an anonymous CVS checkout comes from a mirror server that lags behind the real server, so give the changes a day to "settle" - or get a "developer" to send you an up-to-the-minute developer checkout. Or become one.

The SF "release notes"
doesn't say. And the "CHANGES" file doesn't have a "0.99.01" entry.

Do people *read* that ***? Oh, oh! I just posted to the nasm-devel list:

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I've just been typing in whatever comes into my head for "release notes"
and "changes" - we probbably [sic] ought to "standardize" this.
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So, yeah... we *are* thinking about this. All the files that "ought" to be updated sometimes aren't. (I only today became aware of "mkdeps.pl", which ought to be run before a release involving changes in dependancies is done - that's why the "Mkfiles/" directory was out-of-date in 0.99.00...) It's an imperfect world...

Looks like you are encouraging everyone to "diff" the sources. :)

Absolutely! And if you understand what you see, contribute! Nasm is "user maintained". The Original Authors have withdrawn from the battlefield (do you suppose they know something?). Be thankful that there are people far more knowledgeable than I involved - things could be a lot worse!

Best,
Frank
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