Older versions of NASM would not try to match unknown %if directives
with a corresponding %endif, resulting in some very odd consequences
when it comes to trying to handle support for multiple NASM versions.
Document the problem.
Reported-by: E. C. Masloch <pushbx@ulukai.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
If an unknown preprocessor directive starting with %if or %elif is
encountered, assume it should be treated as a conditional directive
for the purpose of balancing %if...%endif.
This avoids some really ugly problems when dealing with code that is
intended to work across NASM versions that uses %if directives that
don't yet exist.
Reported-by: E. C. Masloch <pushbx@ulukai.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
The message-generating functions appear to get expanded when they
shouldn't, resulting in errors. Disable them for now and remove them
from the documentation.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Add the %find() and %findi() functions to look for a string in a
list. This is useful with picking apart the contents of the
__?DEFAULT?__ macro, for example.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Making DEFAULT ABS the default for 64-bit mode was a real
mistake. Issue a warning so we can eventually change it.
Support making FS: and GS: references also be REL by default.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Change 3.0 to 3.00 in all version numbers, since NASM has
traditionally expanded all but the major version number to 2 digits.
Make the language related to __?NASM_HAS_IFDIRECTIVE?__ more
consistent.
Reported-by: E. C. Masloch <pushbx@ulukai.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
It seems to make sense to call this upcoming release NASM 3.0.
Suggested by: Yongjie Sheng <sheng.yongjie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Update and improve the build from source documentation, including add
an auto-generated list of Perl build dependencies.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Document CPU LATEVEX and the associated prefixes; add CPU EVEX and CPU
VEX flags to further control encodings.
Fix the error message for invalid encodings due to flags.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Bring doc/changes.src up to date with the current status of tree in
preparation for the 2.16 release.
Note that no 2.15.06 release ever was produced.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
RDOFF has been deprecated as it has unfixable problems, and has been
announced that it will be killed off in NASM 2.16.
This deletes it once and for all.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
We need the ability to produce consistent output for our own tests,
anyway, so make this a user-accessible feature. This was requested in
BR 3392635.
This obsoletes the NASM_TEST_RUN environment variable; simply use the
normal NASMENV environment variable instead.
The .obj tests in travis needed to be updated in order to remove the
rather pointless suffix " CONST" from the NASM signatures.
Reported-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
%ifid $ and %ifid $$ has traditionally been false, revert to that
behavior.
Reported-by: Mike Hommey <mh+anfz@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
The RDOFF backend has been broken since at least NASM 2.14, throwing
an immediate assert. Since only one person appears to have even
noticed, and fixing it properly looks like it would take quite a bit
of work, disable this back end and document its deprecation.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
$ in data expressions is hazardous. A proper fix for this turns out to
be quite complex, as it requires the expression engine to propagate
additional data. For now, just put it into the documentation.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
BNDMK, BNDLDX, and BNDSTX are split-SIB (MIB) instructions, but do
*not* require a SIB encoding. However, TILELOAD* and TILESTORE* *do*
require a SIB in all cases. Split the MIB flag into MIB (split
address) and SIB (SIB required) flags.
This fixes travis test mpx.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
We need to add the byte offset into the floating-point value to get
the correct result for these floating point to integer conversions.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
-Lw really is only useful to debug NASM crashes, and can hugely slow
down the assembler. Make -L+ simply imply full verbosity; if NASM
crashes use -Lw+ instead.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Most SSE instructions were missing memory operand sizes, resulting in
error if a memory operand was specified with explicit size.
Reported-by: <nemeth.marton@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
The %? and %?? tokens are ambiguous when used inside a multi-line
macro. Add tokens %*? and %*?? that only expand during single-macro
expansion.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Support generating bfloat16 constants. This is a bit awkward, as "DW"
already generates IEEE half precision constants; therefore there is no
longer a single floating-point format for each size. This requires
some replumbing.
Fortunately bfloat16 fits in 64 bits, so support generating them with
a macro that uses __?bfloat16?__() to convert to integers first before
passing them to DW.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
