From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: AT&T 2 Intel ASM converter
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:28:27 -0800
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Reinier Heeres wrote in message <34E5F1AC DOT 97AA9F67 AT worldonline DOT nl>...
>-I don't know how to handle the .def's exactly

Don't worry about .defs.  Those are coff debug info.  NASM doesn't support
them (yet).
If it does it will probably use the same syntax as gas (i hope).

>-I don't know how to handle the .comm's exactly
NASM does have a comm directive.  It is still lacking an lcomm equivalent
though.  From the help ...

The COMMON directive is used to declare common variables. A common variable
is much like a global variable declared in the uninitialised data section,
so that

          common intvar 4

is similar in function to

          global intvar

          section .bss
intvar    resd 1