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README
NASM, the Netwide Assembler
Changes from 0.98 release to 98.03 as of 27-Jul-2000
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1. Added signed byte optimizations for the 0x81/0x83 class
of instructions: ADC, ADD, AND, CMP, OR, SBB, SUB, XOR:
when used as 'ADD reg16,imm' or 'ADD reg32,imm.' Also
optimization of signed byte form of 'PUSH imm' and 'IMUL
reg,imm'/'IMUL reg,reg,imm.' No size specification is needed.
2. Added multi-pass JMP and Jcc offset optimization. Offsets
on forward references will preferentially use the short form,
without the need to code a specific size (short or near) for
the branch. Added instructions for 'Jcc label' to use the
form 'Jnotcc $+3/JMP label', in cases where a short offset
is out of bounds. If compiling for a 386 or higher CPU, then
the 386 form of Jcc will be used instead.
This feature is controlled by a new command-line switch: "O",
(upper case letter O). "-O0" reverts the assembler to no
extra optimization passes, "-O1" allows up to 5 extra passes,
and "-O2"(default), allows up to 10 extra optimization passes.
3. Added a new directive: 'cpu XXX', where XXX is any of:
8086, 186, 286, 386, 486, 586, pentium, 686, PPro, P2, P3 or
Katmai. All are case insensitive. All instructions will
be selected only if they apply to the selected cpu or lower.
Corrected a couple of bugs in cpu-dependence in 'insns.dat'.
4. Added to 'standard.mac', the "use16" and "use32" forms of
the "bits 16/32" directive. This is nothing new, just conforms
to a lot of other assemblers. (minor)
5. Changed label allocation from 320/32 (10000 labels @ 200K+)
to 32/37 (1000 labels); makes running under DOS much easier.
Since additional label space is allocated dynamically, this
should have no effect on large programs with lots of labels.
The 37 is a prime, believed to be better for hashing. (minor)
6. Integrated patchfile 0.98-0.98.01. I call this version
0.98.03, for historical reasons: 0.98.02 was trashed.
--John Coffman <johninsd@san.rr.com> 27-Jul-2000
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