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NASM version 2.04rc1 (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 13.09.2008, 09:06

> I don't expect it to take long before an official release;

I read in the mailing list that they're currently working on the Mach-O backend and that the final 2.04 probably is released when that is done.

> EDIT: And BTW, no idea why they waste their time UPXing and still have a
> separate non-UPX'd build.

Some people don't like UPX. (I'm not one of these. Heck, I'm currently thinking about whether RxDOSCMD could reload its transient part from a compressed executable.)

> UPX can unpack its stuff 99% of the time.

Well, you need UPX to do that.

> And we
> should all know by now that there's a slight performance decrease (e.g. on
> Windows) when packed, but that shouldn't bother most people.

Are the Win32 binaries packed as well? If they aren't, there's no reason to use dos-upx on Windows.

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Complete thread:

• NASM version 2.03.01 available - rr, 26.06.2008, 16:24 (Announce)
  • NASM version 2.04rc1 - ecm, 10.09.2008, 19:00
    • NASM version 2.04rc1 - Rugxulo, 12.09.2008, 23:38
      • NASM version 2.04rc1 - ecm, 13.09.2008, 09:06
        • NASM version 2.04rc3 - Rugxulo, 15.09.2008, 07:15
          • NASM version 2.04rc3 - ecm, 15.09.2008, 15:50
            • NASM version 2.04rc3 - Rugxulo, 21.09.2008, 23:09
              • NASM version 2.04rc3 - ecm, 22.09.2008, 15:18