[plug] Re: Assembler waffle

[Nick Bannon]

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:48:46PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
[...]
> I certainly don't know enough to make a technical judgement between
> gas and nasm, I just know that I read an article by someone who _was_
> and who was unambiguously in favour of nasm.
[...]

Different target audience, I think. gas exists primarily to take the
machine-generated output from gcc, whereas nasm is designed to give a
nice environment and syntax for hand coding.

Nick.

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