DOS ain't dead

NASM version 2.04rc3 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 15.09.2008, 07:15

> > 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.

I thought they were still looking for a Mach-O backend maintainer?

> > UPX can unpack its stuff 99% of the time.
>
> Well, you need UPX to do that.

Yes, and so? It's not exactly a huge download (400k), and it's quite useful, IMO. (At the very least to unpack stuff if one hates it so much.)

> > 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.

Is there a reason to use DOS non-UPX on Windows? Yes. At the very least, it can handle long commandlines even under DJGPP's bash or make. I'm not sure what compiler builds the Win32 .EXEs anymore (looks like MinGW, yet 0.98.39 for Win32 was Borland, and that was a lot slower than DJGPP). Besides, DJGPP has a newer GCC than MinGW. (And obviously I use the DOS version for DOS reasons, heh.)

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