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From: Dean Scarff <dos AT scarff DOT id DOT au>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nasm-2.08.02-1
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:59:39 +0800
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The cygwin package of nasm has been updated to version 2.08.02.  This  
is the latest stable upstream version available from http://nasm.us/

The Netwide Assembler, NASM, is an 80x86 and x86-64 assembler designed  
for portability and modularity.

In addition to the upstream changes noted below, the I have re-added  
the "-f gnuwin32" output format switch to the Cygwin package, in order  
to retain compatibility with build scripts engineered around this  
previously-necessary workaround.  It now behaves identically to "-f  
win32" except that it uses a ".o" output extension.

Excerpts from the upstream changelog, since 2.06:

Version 2.08:
  - A number of enhancements/fixes in macros area.
  - Support for converting strings to tokens.
  - 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.

Version 2.07
  - NASM is now under the 2-clause BSD license.
  - Fix the section type for the .strtab section in the elf64 output  
format.
  - Fix the handling of COMMON directives in the obj output format.
  - New ith and srec output formats; these are variants of the bin  
output format which output Intel hex and Motorola S-records,  
respectively.
  - rdf2ihx replaced with an enhanced rdf2bin, which can output  
binary, COM, Intel hex or Motorola S-records.
  - The Windows installer now puts the NASM directory first in the  
PATH of the "NASM Shell".
  - Revert the early expansion behavior of %+ to pre-2.06 behavior: %+  
is only expanded late.
  - Yet another Mach-O alignment fix.
  - Don't delete the list file on errors. Also, include error and  
warning information in the list file.
  - Support for 64-bit Mach-O output.
  - Fix assert failure on certain operations that involve strings with  
high-bit bytes.

--
Dean

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