On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chakrabarti, Suvendra (CTS) wrote:
> I have seen two extensions for assembly codes in the kernel sources. One is
> .S, the code for which resembles the one which we had compiled with
> MASM/ TASM and the other is with .s, which looks like assembly for some
> other architecture - (64 bit architectures ???). 'make' does default to
> extensions,
> isn't it ;-)
>
files with the .s extensions are in the AT&T syntax where the source and
destination are reversed wrt INTEL syntax.check out assembly-howto
docs `.
> I had tried to write very simple two liners and tried to compile them with
> as86,
> but whenever I try to execute ld or ld86 (if I remember that correctly) on
> the
> object files (that is what we should get after compiling with as86's), I get
> an
> error 'bad header' types - I cannot recall the exact message, but the gist
> is
> obviously a bad header in the object file. What is wrong here ?
>
> I hope to get the answer also in the digest :-)
>
> Suvendra
try nasm/gasm(http://gasm.cjb.net)
which is an excellent assembler with support for 3d-k6 now.
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