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NASM version 2.09 available (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 26.08.2010, 20:10

> So it compiles in DOS with Open WATCOM ? This looks like good news,
> although I personally don't have that big need to compile my NASM from
> source :-)
Don't know, but that's probably what they addressed there (they stripped down most source code file names to SFNs).

I today got it to compile for an 8086 DOS target after stripping the supported instruction set down to 686 - both executables (NASM and NDISASM) appear to work, but NASM.EXE is a 460 KiB file which means that it barely runs at all and usually crashes if I try to assemble anything at all (at least I hope the crash is only due to running out of memory). NDISASM.EXE works fine though, and is just about 110 KiB.

So NASM still can be compiled for 8086 systems. If I have time for that, I might look into stripping it down better to get the executable's size down. Maybe write some code to let it use disk or XMS swapping? Hmm.

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