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Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:00:18 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Tim Northover <t.p.northover@...il.com>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@...il.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LLVMdev <llvmdev@...uiuc.edu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix

On 07/15/2013 11:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> (NASM used to be *much* more pleasant to work with than gas. Maybe you
> should strive to make nasm DTRT wrt bt and constants, and maintain
> that lead?)
> 

Yes, that is in fact why I took over NASM development when Simon Tatham
gave up on it.  I'll look at adding this in the next version, it should
be easy enough.

	-hpa


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