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From: Yann Droneaud <yann.droneaud@mbda.fr>
To: fruhwirth clemens <clemens-dated-1063536166.2852@endorphin.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nasm over gas?
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:44:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F5741BD.5000401@mbda.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030904104245.GA1823@leto2.endorphin.org>

fruhwirth clemens wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I recently posted a module for twofish which implements the algorithm in
> assembler (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106210815132365&w=2)
> 
> Unfortunately the assembler used is masm. I'd like to change that. Netwide
> Assembler (nasm) is the assembler of my choice since it focuses on
> portablity and has a more powerful macro facility (macros are heavily used
> by 2fish_86.asm). But as I'd like to make my work useful (aim for an
> inclusion in the kernel) I noticed that this would be the first module to
> depend on nasm. Everything else uses gas.
> 
> So the question is: Is a patch which depends on nasm likely to be merged?
> 

I hope no ...

Some years ago, we converted the only part of the kernel that used as86
to GNU as: see arch/i386/boot. I think this was an improvement.
Using nasm for only one small piece of code would be a regression, imho.

Regards.

PS: GCC pass .S assembler source files through cpp, so you get macros
expanding.

-- 
Yann Droneaud <yann.droneaud@mbda.fr>
<ydroneaud@meuh.eu.org> <meuh@tuxfamily.org>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-04 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-04 10:42 nasm over gas? Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 12:32 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-04 13:44 ` Yann Droneaud [this message]
2003-09-04 14:05   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 14:21     ` Sean Neakums
2003-09-04 14:33       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 15:09         ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:55     ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 21:16       ` George Anzinger
2003-09-04 14:57   ` Michael Frank
2003-09-04 15:43     ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 22:28     ` insecure
2003-09-05 12:59       ` Michael Frank
2003-09-05 17:28         ` insecure
2003-09-05 17:45           ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-06 17:18             ` insecure
2003-09-07 18:49           ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-07 19:30             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 21:37               ` insecure
2003-09-09 21:34             ` insecure
2003-09-11 11:07               ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 15:26                 ` insecure
2003-09-12 17:27                   ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 22:17                     ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-13 19:25                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 19:51                         ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-11 14:03               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-11 17:05                 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 20:56           ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-05 13:27       ` Jesse Pollard
2003-09-05 23:51     ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-09-06  1:41       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-04 14:56 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 11:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-05 12:04   ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 12:37     ` Jörn Engel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-05 12:21 John Bradford
2003-09-05 12:25 John Bradford
2003-09-05 12:25 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-06 22:08   ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-09-07 20:40     ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 13:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-05 13:57 John Bradford
2003-09-05 15:39 ` Mehmet Ceyran
2003-09-06 20:24   ` David B. Stevens
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     [not found]       ` <tcVB.rs.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-08 12:03         ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 13:53           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-08 16:10             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:17           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:45             ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 16:58               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 17:59           ` William Lee Irwin III
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     [not found]     ` <teE5.2XZ.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-08 12:07       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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     [not found]         ` <tt0q.6Rc.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
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2003-09-08 20:08             ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau

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