On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 03:01:43PM -0400, Darxus wrote:
>I have a question though. Why make the Linux source dependant on code
>which needs to be assembled under DOS, when there is an assembler for
>Linux (as) ?
gas (which is the assembler Linux uses) uses a format quite differently
from NASM.
One thing is the reversal of args and other problems, like:
mov [eax+ebx*4+4],4 (Intel syntax)
becomes
movl $4,4(%eax,%ebx,4) (AT&T syntax)
As you can see, converting will be a problem. I've done some of it
though, so if there is an interest, I might release my converter
program to the public.
>I would incourage you to release it under either
>the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html), or
>if you want to allow commercial use, the BSD license (which I'm
>significantly less familiar with).
I think the current scheme works well. The problem with adding a license,
is that we probably don't have the rights to add a lot of clauses. At least
lots of the algorithms we use are not developed by ourselves.
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