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NASM version 2.08.01 available (Announce)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 11.03.2010, 23:03

The NASM developers have released NASM version 2.08.01 on 10 March 2010.

Home page: http://www.nasm.us/
Download: http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.08.01/

Changes:
? A number of enhancements/fixes in macros area.
? Support for converting strings to tokens. See section 4.1.9.
? Fuzzy operand size logic introduced.
? Fix COFF stack overrun on too long export identifiers.
? Fix Macho-O alignment bug.
? Fix crashes with -fwin32 on file with many exports.
? Fix stack overrun for too long [DEBUG id].
? Fix incorrect sbyte usage in IMUL (hit only if optimization flag passed).
? Append ending token for .stabs records in the ELF output format.
? New NSIS script which uses ModernUI and MultiUser approach.
? Visual Studio 2008 NASM integration (rules file).
? Warn a user if a constant is too long (and as result will be stripped).
? The obsoleted pre-XOP AMD SSE5 instruction set which was never actualized was removed.
? Fix stack overrun on too long error file name passed from the command line.
? Bind symbols to the .text section by default (ie in case if SECTION directive was omitted) in the ELF output format.
? Fix sync points array index wrapping.
? A few fixes for FMA4 and XOP instruction templates.
? Add AMD Lightweight Profiling (LWP) instructions.
? Fix the offset for %arg in 64-bit mode.
? An undefined local macro (%$) no longer matches a global macro with the same name.
? Fix NULL dereference on too long local labels.

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