On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 01:34:14PM +0100, Lorenz (xha) wrote: > as cannot be used correctly anymore (at least on amd64) because it is > missing the newer instructions.
It's perfectly usable for assembling any handwritten asm code that doesn't use the newer instructions. I use the 'as' in base on a regular basis precisely for this. It's not just hand written asm either, we have our own compiler that spits out X86 asm source which is assembled with base 'as' and linked with base 'ld' to produce static binaries. > would it make sense to remove it? No.
