New features in this release (compared to 0.5.0rc2):
- Support for arithmetic on single-character constants.
- Support for OUTPUT_FORMAT as an alias for YASM_OBJFMT.
- A couple of other bugfixes.
New features in this release (compared to 0.5.0rc1):
- Support for CodeView 8.0 source debugging (as used by Visual Studio
2005).
- Fixed -I support to properly handle relative paths (now the search
pattern is essentially identical to most C compilers). This change is
backwards incompatible (to both NASM and earlier Yasm versions), but
is much more consistent.
- Standard macros that provide version information: __YASM_MAJOR__,
__YASM_MINOR__, __YASM_SUBMINOR__, __YASM_BUILD__, __YASM_VERSION_ID__
and __YASM_VER__.
New features in this release (compared to 0.4.0) include:
- Aliases for AMD64 object formats: "win64" and "elf64" (these
automatically set the machine to "amd64").
- "x64" alias for Win64 object format (for easier use with Visual
Studio).
- DWARF2 debugging format (enable with "-g dwarf2").
- GAS parser good enough to take GCC output for both AMD64 and 32-bit
x86 (including DWARF2 debug information).
- Dozens of bugfixes in x86 and AMD64 support.
- Specifying "amd64" as the machine (or using a 64-bit object format)
automatically sets BITS 64.
Known issues with this release include:
- List output is buggy and often outright wrong.
- The optimizer is a very basic 2-pass style and generates inefficient
(large) code at times.
- The binary object format does not yet support sections other than
.text, .bss, and .data, unlike newer versions of NASM (see Trac bug
#71).
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